ENS 307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Distracted Driving, Heart Rate
12 Apr 2020
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Taking possession of the mind in clear and vivid form. We can attend to only one thing at a time. We can freely shift our attention back and forth. Attention is defined based on its types: consciousness, effort or arousal, selective attention, attention as a capacity or resource. What we"re aware of at any given time. Expending mental effort (ex: reading a challenging a scientific paper) We can direct attention to different inputs or tasks. Bottom-up: steered by features of objects in the world. Take for example activity a and activity b. Illustrated in our ability to perform two tasks simultaneously. Interference patterns: a unaffected, b suffers, b unaffected, a suffers, both a and b suffers, b prevented from occurring, a in progress. All assumed attention was a fixed capacity (single resource) Performance will deteriorate if requirement exceed capacity. Early filter theories (assumes all processing require attention) Located bottleneck at early stages information processing.
