PSYC 2390 Final: sensation final-text notes

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2390
• Professor: Lana Trick

Document Summary

Information processing is more effective a the place where attention is located o also attend to specific objects in the environment o when attention is directed to one place on an object, the enhancing effect of that attention spreads to other places on the object o same object advantage: the faster responding that occurs when enhancement spreads within an object o this spreading enhancement may help us perceive partially obscured objects. A house) causes enhanced activity in the ppa o also, attending to movement caused activity in the movement areas (mt/mst) o attention maps: presenting objects at different locations on the retina activates different locations on the brain o in attention experiments, brain activity caused by where the person was attending was analyzed to determine where the person was directing his/her mind o attention can cause slight shifts in a receptive field"s location on the retina.