PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Rutabaga, Peripheral Vision, Donald Broadbent
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How well can we focus on one message. Attention when we look at visual objects/scene. Overview: selective attention: when does selection occur, how does task load affect selective attention, dividing attention: paying attention to more than one thing, attention and visual processing, attention in social situations: the case of autism. Selective attention, the ability to focus on one message while ignoring all others: it has been demonstrated using the dichotic listening procedure. Hearing to 2 passages at once, but focusing attention on hearing 1 passage (attended message) over the other unwanted one (unattended message) by using the shadowing procedure of someone else saying them out loud) Cocktail party phenomenon: ability to pay attention to one message and ignore all others. A number of models have been proposed to explain the process of selective attention: early selection - broadbent"s filter model of attention.
