Psychology 2015A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Feature Integration Theory, Binding Problem, Visual Search

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2015A/B
• Professor: Richard Brown

Document Summary

Attention- to specific features of the environ in a way that causes these features to become more visible and deeply processed than the features not receiving attention. Divided attention- paying attention to many diff things. Selective attention- focusing on specific objects and ignoring others. Selectively focus on an object because your visual system has been constructed to operate in that way. Mechanisms that help achieve this is the all cone fovea. There is mental aspect of attention- focus on some things to the exclusion of others. Fixations- places where the eye pauses to take in info. Refers to characteristics of the environment that stands out because of physical properties such as color, brightness, contrast or orientation. Saliency map- determine wheather observers fixations were controlled by a stimulus saliency as indicated by the map. The knowledge we have about things that are often found in certain types of scenes can help determine what to look for.