PSYC 3260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Retina, Eye Tracking, Change Blindness

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3260
• Professor: Norman Park

Document Summary

In the context of human information processing, attention is the process that, at a given moment, enhances some information and inhibits other information. The enhancement enables us to select some information for further processing, and the inhibition enables us to set some information aside. Attention: process of concentrating on specific features of the environment or on certain thoughts or activities. Selective: excluding of other features of the environment. Both overt and covert: we can consciously attend to information but some information grabs our attention. Attention: overt attention shifting attention from one place to another by moving the eyes. The movement of the eyes provide observable signals of how attention is changing overtime: covert attention shifting attention without moving the eyes, commonly refer to as from the corner of my eyes, selective attention. Ability to focus on one message and ignore all others. We do not attend to a large fraction of the information in the environment.