AUPSY102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Inattentional Blindness, Hemispatial Neglect, Change Blindness

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Augustana Faculty - Psychology
• Course: AUPSY102
• Professor: Katharine Bailey

Document Summary

The term adhd covers a spectrum of problems, ranging from relatively mild to rather serious. Nothing in this range comes close to . Unilateral neglect syndrome a pattern of symptoms in which affected individuals ignore all inputs coming from one side of space. Individuals with this syndrome put only one of their arms into their jackets, eat food from only half of their plates, read only half of words (e. g. , they might read blouse as use ), and so on. This pattern is generally the result of damage to the right parietal lobe, and so the neglect is for the left side of space. Dichotic listening a task in which research participants hear two simultaneous verbal messages one presented via headphones to the left ear and a second one presented to the right ear. Ordinarily, little information is understood or remembered from the unattended channel.