PSYC 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Inattentional Blindness, Hemispatial Neglect, Frontal Lobe

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Early studies of attention often used a setup called dichotic listening: participants wore headphones, and heard one input in the left ear and a different input in the right ear. The participants were instructed to pay attention to one of these inputs the attended channel and told simply to ignore the message in the other ear (the unattended channel). To make sure participants were paying attention, they were usually given a task called shadowing. The participants listened to a recording of someone speaking, and then they were required to repeat it back. However while participants are shadowing the attended channel, they do not usually remember the unattended channel. Although if something personal ie favourite restaurant or name is spoken through the unattended channel, this is the only thing remembered. Similar with visual stimuli, such as the gorilla and soccer experiment. Inattentional blindness: when participants can"t see what is right in front of them because they are focusing somewhere else.