PSYC20007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Temporal Lobe, Parahippocampal Gyrus, Parietal Lobe

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC20007
• Professor: All

Document Summary

What does attention act upon: space based theories: assume attention acts on region of space, e. g. spotlight theory, fit etc, object based theories: attention acts on objects in space, not space itself. Rock & gutman (1981: overlapping figures: attend to one and rate aesthetic appeal; ignore other, memory test: good memory for attended figure, none for unattended, objects occupy same region of space. What happens to unattended shapes: maybe: not perceived or not fully perceived; inattentional amnesia (quickly forget stimulus not attending to, tipper (1985, etc. , pairs of red-green figures: trumpet-kite, anchor-trumpet etc, negative priming. Implications of rock & guttman, negative priming: possible to attend to 1 object and ignore another when both occupying same region of space, maybe attention operates on object not the space. Effects of an occluding bar (moore, yantis & vaughan, 1998: occluding bar in stereo space: still find same object advantage, not related to crossing edges or boundaries, agrees with percept of continuous objects.