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| 1322750835 | divided attention | Paying attention to more than one thing at a time. Makes it difficult to focus on any one thing. | 0 | |
| 1322750837 | selective attention | ignoring some, paying attention to some | 1 | |
| 1322750838 | saccades | eye movements | 2 | |
| 1322750840 | fixations | stops in eye movements (saccades) indicate where the person is attending | 3 | |
| 1322750842 | 3 Focus Factors | characteristics, picture meaning/observer knowledge, observer's task | 4 | |
| 1322750844 | characteristics of a scene | brightness, color, salience, visability | 5 | |
| 1322750846 | picture meaning and observer knowledge | scene schema, knowledge of what we expect to see in a scene | 6 | |
| 1322750849 | observer's task | we look where we need to to get something done - task relevant information | 7 | |
| 1322750851 | inattentional bias | you will not perceive something that you are not attending to, even if you are looking right at it | 8 | |
| 1322750854 | change blindness | we miss changes that we are not specifically looking for | 9 | |
| 1322750857 | precuing | participant is presented with a "cue" that indicates where a stimulus is most likely to appear. | 10 | |
| 1322750860 | spreading enhancement | effect of attention that may help us perceive occluded objects; experiment by Robert Egly that showed that when attention is directed to one place on an object, the enhancing effect of this attention spreads throughout the object (ex. bars with targets ABCD); see also experiment by Moore et al. (ex. "animal" lurking behind tree) | 11 | |
| 1322750863 | True | Paying attention to a stimulus makes it stand out more. It makes it seem brighter. | 12 | |
| 1322750866 | binding | When features such as color, form, motion & location combine to create our perception | 13 | |
| 1322750869 | FFA | Fusiform Face Area | 14 | |
| 1322750872 | fusiform face area | is an area of the visual cortex that specifically responds to and recognizes faces. | 15 | |
| 1322750875 | EBA | Extrastriate body area (in the brain). | 16 | |
| 1322750878 | Extrastriate body area | Area of the visual cortex involved in perception of body parts. | 17 | |
| 1322750880 | PPA | Parahippocampal Place Area | 18 | |
| 1322750882 | Parahippocampal Place Area | PPA is important in encoding and recognizing environmental scenes like place, rooms, or landscapes.` | 19 | |
| 1322750884 | Binding Problem | The problem confronted by the brain of recombining the elements of a stimulus, given the fact that these elements are initially analyzed separately by different neural systems. | 20 | |
| 1322750886 | feature integration theory | A sequence of steps proposed by Treisman to explain how an object is broken down into features and how these features are recombined to result in a perception of the object. | 21 | |
| 1322750887 | Why Attention is Everything | Focused attention "binds" the features together - Attention is the glue that binds the "what" & "where" streams together In the absence of focused attention, features associated with one object can be incorrectly combined with another. That makes illusions. | 22 | |
| 1322750888 | Illusory Conjunctions | A situation, demonstrated in experiments by Anne Treisman, in which features from different objects are inappropriately combined. | 23 | |
| 1322750889 | Balint's Syndrome | A condition caused by brain damage in which a person has difficulty focusing attention on individual objects. (Damage to Parietal Lobe) | 24 | |
| 1322750890 | Synchrony hypothesis | the idea that when an object causes neurons in different parts of the cortex to fire, the timing of the firing of these neurons will be synchronized. This synchrony indicates that all of these neurons are responding to the same object. This idea has been proposed as a solution to the binding problem. | 25 |
