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EX2: attention
and its effects on perception
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| attention | focusing of mental processing on an aspect of the external world or internal state (selection) |
| arousal | global state of readiness to process information (sleep-wakefulness), brainstem reticular activating system and cholinergic modulation of cortex |
| attentional processing in audition (nonspatial) | attend to a select binaural source in complex auditory scene |
| attentional processing in audition (spatial) | endogenously attend to L or R rapid stream of binaural input, exogenously (reflexively) attend to deviant, loud, or salient sound from rapid stream of binaural input |
| nonspatial (featural) attention in vision tasks | visual search tasks, rapid serial visual presentation paradigm (RSVP) |
| endogenous visuospatial attention | posner cueing paradigm: how to measure covert allocation of attention when people dont mvoe eyes |