PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Connectionism, Subiculum
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In experimental simulations of this situation, about 35% of participants report hearing their own name: when we are attending to complicated, high load tasks that consume much of our attentional capacity, selection tends to occur early, wherever filtering occurs, it is clear that people have difficulty if they attempt to focus their attention on two or more inputs simultaneously, although people tend to think that they can multitask with no deterioration in performance, research suggests that the human brain can effectively handle only one. 1 attention consuming task at a time: that may be fine in many circumstances, but the cost of divided attention does have profound implications for the controversy about the advisability of driving while conversing on a cellphone. suggest that while much of the information we want to remember is encoded as a result of effortful processing, some types of information may be acquired more automatically.
