PSYC 358 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Headphones, The Cocktail Party, Echoic Memory

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 358
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

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Part 1: first attempts to study the limit of attention to speech. (cid:883)95(cid:882)"s: try and figure out how many people we can listen to at the same time and understand what they"re saying. Studying attention to speech something (maybe you hear your name) speech: headphone and tape recorders were important at the time. Dichotic listening: two auditory inputs (one to each ear, 1950s: stereo headphones invented, magnetic tape was invented in the 1940s by the. In most experimental subjects, their language processing is in their left hemisphere, so right ear is better at processing (slightly) Shannon: proposed early proponent of information theory. Attended speech (cognitive approach: longer-term memory = the thing that you wanted to remember all along. The impact of broadbent"s model was tremendous: fairly intuitive don"t have to read a lot, just have to look at the model.