PSYC 4600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lingual Gyrus, Receptive Field

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 4600
• Professor: Maria Giammarco

Document Summary

Attention as a consequence of how information processing occurs in the brain. Non-spatial attention: what we see is subject to our attentional goals. As it is with spatial attention: can selectively process certain features (colours, shapes, etc. ), or more complex objects and categories (faces, scenes, bodies, etc. ) Spatial attention was where we were looking. How does attention to different features affect processing within visual perceptual cortex. Detect any changes: test for locus of selective attention. Compare brain activity under selective attention minus divided attention. Study: participants were told to attend one of the objects (face or houses) Compared brain activity for each internal state in ffa and ppa: equivalent effect as attention to low-level features. Study: attention determined by motion dimension moving vs static. If house is moving, they have higher activity when attending to moving house than static face. Inside receptive field moving up: featural attentional modulation (a vs b)