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Cognitive Processes Lesson 2 Attention From p.275 of Weiten (2012) Cognitive Processes Lesson 2 Attention Figure 3-1 (p. 90 Galotti (2003), Cognitive psychology In and out of the laboratory) Depiction of a dicho...

Cognitive Processes Lesson 2 Attention From p.275 of Weiten (2012) Cognitive Processes Lesson 2 Attention Figure 3-1 (p. 90 Galotti (2003), Cognitive psychology In and out of the laboratory) Depiction of a dichotic listening task. The listener hears two messages and is asked to repeat (“shadow”) one of them. Cognitive Processes Lesson 2 Attention Figure 3-3 (p. 93, Galotti (2003), Cognitive psychology In and out of the laboratory) Depiction of Treisman’s (1960) experimental paradigm. The two messages “switch ears” at the point indicated by the slash mark. Cognitive Processes Lesson 2 Attention The role of attention Parallel pre-attentive processes Serial attention Source:Christopher G. Healey Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/healey/PP Cognitive Processes Lesson 2 Attention Treisman’s (1986) Feature Integration Theory proposes that we process features independently in a preattentive manner (doing this very quickly and in parallel), and the role of attention (the ‘attention spotlight) was to bind these features together into objects (a slow and serial process) Source: Anne Treisman, Features and Objects in Visual Processing, 1986 5 Cognitive Processes Lesson 2 Attention Change blindness What does it imply? – Percept of completeness – Amount encoded – Role of attention Cognitive Processes Source: Ophir, E., Nass, C., & Wagner, A. (2009). Cognitive Control in media multitaskers. PNAS, 106(37). Lesson 2 Attention