Attention Flashcards
What is an attention bottleneck?
The channel of info has a limited capacity due to the volume of info being too big.
Describe the cocktail party effect?
Ones ability to focus ones attention on a particular stimulus whilst filtering out other stimuli.
Who came up with the perceptual load theory?
Lavie and Yehoshua 1994
Define the cognitive load
The amount of info that working memory can hold at one time.
Define the perceptual load.
basic things in the environment cause distraction.
what is Multisensory integration
process by which inputs from two or more senses are combined to form a product
What is the McGurk effect
brain can hear someone saying different but the same sound makes it sound different.
What is covert attention
Paying attention without moving the eye.
What is overt attention
selectively processing one location over others by moving the eyes to point at that location.
