PSYC 369 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Visual Search, Parietal Lobe, Developmental Disorder
19 Oct 2015
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The process of focusing on some objects while ignoring others. Attention can enhance the processing of the attended object. Occurs when stimulus salience causes an involuntary shift of attention. For example, attention can be captured by movement. A serious developmental disorder in which one of the major symptoms is the withdrawal of contact from other people. People with autism typically do not make eye contact with others and have difficulty telling what emotions others are experiencing in social situations. A condition resulting from damage to a person"s parietal lobe. One characteristic of this syndrome is an inability to focus attention on individual objects. The process by which features such as color, form, motion, and location are combined to create our perception of a coherent object. Binding can also occur across senses, as when sound and vision are associated with the same object.
