PSY 200 Lecture 1: Psychology 200-01.docx ALL LECTURES
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Cognitive neuroscience pre occipital lobe frontal lobe prefrontal cortex attention planning interpersonal and emotional behaviors primary motor cortex planning and executing motor movements we devote a lot of brain area activity to the functions of the hands and the face * One ear, then the other, with numbers one ear, 3,6,7 other ear, 9,8,5 early attention selection model idea behind the model: early sensory info in the short memory bank, all the info has to come in an be buffered (cid:224) all info was processes in basic perceptual level selected items are process further(cid:224) where meaning comes into play. Evidence of a central bottleneck: kalsbeek & sykes, task 1: footpedal responses to tones (one foot for high pitch and one for low, task 2: write something interesting , results, slow tones give room for multitasking, as tones speed up they cant write as much, negative correlation between how much they can write and speed of the tones.