PSYC 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Parietal Lobe, Briey, Saccade

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2220
• Professor: Laurie Wilcox

Document Summary

Posner spatial attention: attention to speci c locations but enhancement of this attention spreads throughout object so enhancement occurred at other places in the object too attending at spot a where cue was presented enhances the maximum processing/effect at. A result attention speeds responding (measure speed of responding to stimuli) this is called same object advantage: faster responding occurs when enhancement spreads throughout the same object. O"craven experiment fmri attention to objects increases response of speci c brain areas what happens when we don"t attend? inattentional blindness: stimulus not attended to is not perceived, even though person is directly looking at it. This makes it hard to detect the change that is, if no blank is present changes can easily be detected since there"s motion in the region where the object is missing change blindness.