COGS 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Retina, Federico Fellini
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Gorilla video - paying attention to one thing you"re going to take away resources from other things. Eyes moving around to build a full image. Example- airplane picture - brain builds a full image of one and compares it at a full image of the other. The door study - 1998 simons and levin. Two different type of processes (pop out and serial search) Pop out (green l in the red ts) Serial search (when you really have to examine the elements) -requires attention. Things in the white circle will be processed well. Ex forgetting to turn off your phone before class. Attention is a limited resource (* important point- professor) Part 2 - switching the message if the meaning makes more sense to switch. The brain was paying attention to one of the other ears to make the judgement of the information makes more sense in that capacity. A lot of information is processed as it comes in.
