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Cognitive Psychology - The processes involved in attention.

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Have a little read: ... Cognitive Psychology (PSY323M1) Lecture 4. The processes involved in attention. Reading: Chapter 5 Eysenck & Keane; Styles, E.A. (1997). The psychology of attention. Psychology Press, Hove Cognitive Lab: Eriksen task in Superlab folder Your objectives are to-: i). Understand the notion of attentional selection and attempts to pinpoint the location (i.e. 'early', 'late' or 'flexible') of the attentional filter in the information processing chain. ii). Assess the utility of the different metaphors that aid our understanding of visual selective attention. iii). Understand current thinking regarding the fate of 'unattended' stimuli, and in particular the results derived from the 'negative priming' paradigm. iv). Be cognisant of the processes involved in visual search, with particular emphasis on Treisman's (1980) Feature Integration Theory. v). Be able to describe some of the major disorders of attention. When you are having a conversation in the coffee bar, a place that is notoriously noisy, you are most often so

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