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1 We simply cannot read the left-hand and right-hand sentences at the same time
Figure 8.2 Search for the raised hand in this piece of a Wheres Waldo? picture
Wheres Waldo?
Notice that it is impossible to process the entire scene at full capacity all at once.
The restriction of your processing of the scene to a particular location at a particular time, is attention.
peripheral cue
Attentional cueing:
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symbolic cue
Feature search. These searches are very efficient and typically have slopes of about 0 ms/item .
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Conjunction search. These searches are moderately efficient and have modest slopes.
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If fish swim by fast enough you can get them both in the same scoop (explains
why the X can be seen if it immediately follows the white letter).
Attentional blink:
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Suppose a cell responds best to a vertical line and less well to lines of different orientation.
Attention could increase the responsiveness of the cell to all orientations.
2. Sharper tuning
Attention could narrow the range of stimuli that cause the cell to respond.
The level of response to the preferred stimulus doesnt change but it responds
less well to non-ideal stimuli.
3. Altered tuning
Examples:
Damage to left
primary visual
cortex yields
blindness in the
right visual
field.
A neglect patient would produce this sort of result if asked to cross out all the lines
on the page.
Or copy a drawing of a house
A neglect patient might just eat the food on one side of his plate or just shave half
his face.
Neglect patients did not see the left side of this barbell.
But when the barbell was rotated while he was looking at
it, he neglected it on the right side.
Clearly he has vision on both sides but ignores one side.
The neglect was object based, not location based.
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