PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cognitive Psychology, Frontal Lobe, Superior Colliculus

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Richard Wright

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Think of it as a gateway it does not let everything get through. A woman running on the beach, she is able to have different aspects of attention processes. Focus on a subset of stimuli to everything else. How many people can we listen to at the same time?". Neisser author of book: cognitive psychology. Not really blind, temporary blindness due to not paying attention. Not seeing, weren"t able to notice the small changes when paying attention to only one video. Change something in a photograph, or simply remove something Searching for things that are hard to find requires a lot of attention: ex. Illusory conjunctions: overloaded attention still see the features, still able to respond however, sometimes features are mixed up causing errors, features are free-floating when attention is not paid that much. Saccadic eye movement & scan paths: move attention off to the side when the eyes are focussed on one thing, saccades are jump-and-rest" eye movements.