PSYB51H3 Lecture Notes - Visual Search, Binding Problem, Attentional Blink
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Surface in space that is 2 dimensional and all the points on that surface have zero disparity. Locus of points in space that yield single vision. Makes same angle at the two eyes with the fixation lines. Relationship between attention and arousal: it"s a bell curve. As you increase your arousal you can pay better attention, but with high levels of arousal, there is a decline in attention. We have a lck of brain to pay attention to everything at the same time. Ex of sensory bottleneck wheres waldo, so much going on hard to take it all in. We need attention so we can focus on 1 thing at a time. We have criteria to select what is more important and that"s what we will focus more of our attention on. Attention plays a role anywhere with any brain function and so diff modalities of perception, but vision is the most famous.