PSYB57H3 Lecture Notes - Hemispatial Neglect, Frontal Lobe, Parietal Lobe

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Psyb57 memory and cognition lec 5 6/12/2013 7:58:00 am. Attention: attention is the process that, at a given moment, enhances some information and inhibits other information. The enhancement allows us to select some information for further processing, and the inhibition allows us to set some information aside (smith & kosslyn, 2007, p. 103) We all intuitively understand that it means to pay attention" it is to focus on something, and ignore distractions. But attention has been notoriously tricky to define, it has been used synonymously with terms such as arousal, control, and consciousness. Selective attention: refers to the skill through which one focuses on one input or one task while ignoring other stimuli. Shadowing (repeating an audio track) -> dichotic listening; different messages to each ear; attended channel -> listen to this one unattended channel; ignore this one. Cocktail party effect: other conversations tuned out, unattended channel can be noticed, the participant"s own name, words of high personal significance.

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