Synopsis

What does ?attention? mean to you? This unit will help you to examine how we ?pay attention?. How do we manage to single out sounds and images that require attention and how easy is it to distract someone and why?

Table of Contents

Introduction
Learning outcomes
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Disentangling sounds
1.3 Attending to sounds
1.4 Eavesdropping on the unattended message
1.5 Summary of Section 1
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Knowing about unseen information
2.3 Towards a theory of parallel processing
2.4 Rapid serial visual presentation
2.5 Masking and attention
2.6 Summary of Section 2
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Serial and parallel search
3.3 Non-target effects
3.4 The ‘flanker’ effect
3.5 Summary of Section 3
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The effects of irrelevant speech
4.3 Attending across modalities
4.4 Summary of Section 4
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The effects of brain damage
5.3 Event-related potentials
5.4 Summary of Section 5
6 Concluding thoughts
Further reading
Next steps
References
Acknowledgements

 

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