Psychology 3185F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Uitvlugt, Simultaneous Exhibition, Police Of The Wire

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3185F/G
• Professor: Patrick Brown

Document Summary

Schmit study: 6 colour shapes presented simultaneously 1 item preceding by sudden onset cue. Benefit in bottom-up attention in change detection task. Predictive condition: cue indicated which item would be. Pedale & santangelo: objects with max sensory salience were reported @ earlier positions in list. We are trying to understand what because task revelent bottom-up attention: we are more drawn to it and is more noticeable, which may not be task relevant. Experiments 1a and 1b research question-replicating a previous study (schmit)-past study was a change task (noticing change). Only visual, also verbal effect?- this experiment extends it to verbal stimulus, & concentratingon a memory task. Task : working memory task: white fixation cross in center, grey background always present. Fixation 50ms well within short term memory time. Probe appears (letter or color), they answer if probe the same color/ letter as the thing presented (memory array item- color/letter) previously in the same location.