PSYC1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: University Of Manchester, Parietal Lobe, Anatomical Terms Of Location

• School: ANU
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1004
• Professor: Professor Michael Platow

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William james (1890) distinguished between: passi(cid:448)e modes of atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374): sti(cid:373)ulus-driven attentional control, controlled in a bottom-up way by external stimuli (e. g. , a loud noise), a(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e modes of atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374): goal-driven attentional control, controlled in a topdown fashion (e. g. , the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual(cid:859)s goals(cid:895) What is attention for: p(cid:396)o(cid:272)ess so(cid:373)e i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374), at the e(cid:454)pe(cid:374)se of othe(cid:396) i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374, ele(cid:272)t so(cid:373)e i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374), a(cid:374)d i(cid:374)hi(cid:271)it other information, li(cid:373)its o(cid:374) p(cid:396)o(cid:272)essi(cid:374)g (cid:272)apa(cid:272)it(cid:455) - ea(cid:396)l(cid:455) (cid:448)e(cid:396)sus late ele(cid:272)tio(cid:374) theo(cid:396)ies of atte(cid:374)tio(cid:374) Attention is most commonly focused where one is looking, that is, where the eyes are fixated (overt orienting of attention) but it is also possible to focus attention without eye movements (helmholtz, mid-19th century). Hermann von helmholtz (1867) first demonstration of covert visual spatial orienting. In this experiment the attention is entirely independent of the position and accommodation of the eyes, or indeed, of any known variations in or on the organ of vision.