PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Memory Consolidation, Long-Term Memory, Clive Wearing
16 Mar 2016
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It"s possible that there are times, that cognitive states such as intense focus can close these neural gates making us not really recognize a level of pain that we would have been totally annoying at another time. Or just very personally relevant information like your name: how have researchers studied this concept. When you need to perform a task, your attention narrows to be able to focus. In this case, we miss something clearly within our visual field. This effect is known as inattentional blindness: when we focus on the task at hand, we don"t even see the information that is irrelevant to our task. Even though it"s clearly in our field of. Real world implications: radiologists (considered expert lookers ) Fail to see important things sometimes even though its their job. Missed gorilla the size of match book because they weren"t looking for it they were looking for cancer.
