PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Hemispatial Neglect, Binding Problem, Automaticity
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Participants wore headphones, and heard one input in left ear and different input in right ear: participants were instructed to pay attention to one of the inputs (attended channel) and ignore message in other ear (unattended channel) To ensure they were paying attention, they were given a task called shadowing, where the participant had to repeat the speech being heard as it is being played. Little to nothing is picked up from the unattended channel. People are not altogether oblivious to unattended channel. Some bits of unattended input leak" through and get noticed. Familiar words (ie. name, movie, restaurant that you can relate to) tend to catch" attention while in unattended channel (cocktail party effect) Early proposal suggests that we filter potential distractors. Not only do we block the processing of distractors, but also able to promote the processing of desired stimuli.
