PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory, Peripheral Vision
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Attention: the ability to concentrate effort on a specific stimuli or location it is a gate-keeper" to sensory information. Distraction: one stimulus interfering with the processing of another stimulus. Divided attention: paying attention to more than one thing at a time. Attentional capture: a rapid shifting of attention usually caused by a stimulus like a loud noise, bright light or sudden movement. Visual scanning: movements of the eyes from one location or object to another (to identify) Both tracks are equally easy to hear dichotic listening presenting different stimuli to the left and right ear. Johnsrude et al (2013) revisited the dichotic listening task. In this experiment, participants came in with a speech overlay on top of each other a. This depends purely on attention, because they have to focus on what the target is saying (in this case it is a number they have to respond to after)