PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Synesthesia, Sensory Substitution, Multisensory Integration

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Cognitive neuroscience: aims to understand neural basis of the mind. Using imaging machines, vegetative patients have been seen to produce brain activity similar to a normal patient when asked certain questions involving motor imagery (imagining doing certain activities). Unconscious parallel processing is faster then sequential conscious processing. Sequential conscious processing is better at solving new problems. Blind sight: loss of conscious vision following damage to the visual cortex. Sometimes, these people are able to sense objects in their path. Selective attention: focussing of conscious awareness on specific aspect of stimuli. Inattentional blindness: consequence of selectively attending to one thing can cause blindness to other things. If someone is focussed intently on a task, they may not notice things unrelated to their task around them. Change blindness: failing to notice changes in environment. Pop-out phenomenon: such powerful stimuli, it demands attention. Sensation: sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus.