PSYC 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Implicit Learning, Summary Judgment, Regular Language
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Cognitive effort try to shut out distracting stimulation; subconscious override to inhibit bottom-up attention effect. Looking at same picture depending on what we know. Knowledge can help guide where we put our attention, impact what we do with top- down attention. Local frame of mind activating fewer network: global state of mind broader network, red and blue activate different motivations, Bottom-up attention - the reflexive or automatic tendency of our visual attention to get drawn to eye-catching stimuli, such as a flashing light or uniquely-coloured object; the optical equivalent of a shout . Top-down attention the conscious, willful decision to attend to some specific aspect or detail of the visual environment. Change blindness: frequent inability of our visual system to detect alterations to something in plain view. Visual system can focus on only one or very few objects at a time; lot of detail we don"t pick up on. Brain master at filling gaps; compiling cohesive portrait of reality.
