PS260 Chapter 4: Chapter 4- Attention
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Some bits of unattended input do leak . Study where people were listening to attended channel while ignoring the unattended: but unattended was embedded with familiar names (jiminy, because this story is familiar to some people they were. Cricket, pinocchio) able to say what happened in the unattended ear. One option for explaining these results focuses on what you do with the unattended input. Bottleneck theories potential distractors: suggest that you erect a filter that shields you from, attended info still goes through, the sentry seems to have assignment of blocking specific, already-identified gate-crashers. All participants did not recall seeing a shape. When they said why they couldn"t remember, its because they weren"t expecting a shape to appear. Ex. real-world example: when cars get into accidents with bicyclist, he came out of no where . Mack and rock argue there is no conscious perception without attention. Change blindness: observers" inability to detect changes in scenes they"re looking at directly.
