PSYC 2145 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Change Blindness, Selectin, Rutabaga
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Clicker question: the case of the gorilla shown in the x-ray to radiologists (and they did not notice the gorilla) is an example of . Inattentional blindness - it is not change blindness because the gorilla is in the picture the whole time. Ignore people, objects, events on contra-lesional side. Deficits in object-based attention in balint"s syndrome after bilateral parietal lesions. Locks into an object and cannot engage in another. Attention seems to be allocated in space . Sometimes attention is object directed or locked onto an object . Attention is biased to the right side of space (as we have said) However, once attention is engaged by an object, attention can follow the object to the neglected side of apce. Patient can detect and respond to stimuli in left or right visual field when presented unilaterally. Patient reports only one stimulus when stimuli are presented in both fields. The neglect of one side of space is object oriented.
