PSYC 2050U Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Brainstem, Lateral Geniculate Nucleus, Intralaminar Nuclei Of Thalamus
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Consciousness top-down attention with consciousness top-down attention without consciousness consciousness without top-down attention. According to koch and tsuchiya, attention and consciousness are two separate things. Some students may prefer an expansive definition that includes such things as perceptual and physical experiences, felt reactions, and felt moods. Pinker: self knowledge, access to information, sentience. The task is to rebuild the rings on another tower without ever putting a larger ring on top of a smaller ring. It can be done in seven steps, and after much practice, students learn the task. After they have solved it, however, their explanations for how they solved it can be quite bizarre. Attention is the process by which the mind chooses from among the various stimuli that strike the senses at any given moment. Allows only some information to enter into consciousness. Top-down processing is voluntary and uses personal knowledge to drive attention.
