PSYCH 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Hemispatial Neglect, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Inattentional Blindness
1 Mar 2020
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Overwhelmed by the flood of info that"s available to them and unable to focus on a chosen target. Generally result of damage to parietal cortex (specifically right loe so neglect is often on life side of space) Ignoring inputs coming from one side of the body. William james: famously described selective attention: everyone know what attention is. It is the taking possession by the mind . The skill through which a person focuses on one input / task while ignoring other stimuli. Ps wear headphones, hear one input in left ear and different input in right. Told to pay attention to attended channel and ignore message in unattended channel. Shadowing task: ps required to repeat back what they hear in attended channel: performance usually close to perfect most of th time, hearing little from other channel. Similar pattern with visual inputs: the invisible gorilla" video.
