Cognition (PSYCH-UA.29)Fall 2015

Study Sheet

Attention

TermsAttentional blinkBalint’s syndromeBottleneck (bottleneck model)Channel capacityCognitive loadCognitive resourcesEndogenous attentionExogenous attentionFilteringFive functions of attention (action selection, anchoring, focusing,

perceptual enhancement, sustaining behavior)High-load taskLocation-based attentionLow-load taskObject-based attentionPrecueingSaccadic eye movementsShadowing

ConceptsAttenuation model (Treisman)Automatic processing/attention Broadbent’s filter modelCapacity theoryChange blindnessCocktail party effectCognitive load theoryControlled processing/attentionCovert attentionDichotic listeningDivided attentionEarly Filter/Selection ModelFeature Integration theoryIllusory conjunctionInattentional blindnessLate selection modelMultimode theoryNorman’s Pertinence modelOvert attention

Same-object advantageScene schemaSelective attentionStimulus salienceStroop Effect

ExperimentsAutomaticity in Morse code learning (Bryan & Harter, 1899)Change blindness (Simons and Levin, 1997a)Conjunction and disjunction searches (Treisman and Gelade, 1980; Treisman and Schmidt,

1982)Controlled attention v. automaticity (Schneider and Shiffrin, 1977; Stroop, 1935)Dichotic listening (Cherry, 1953; Moray, 1959)Eye movement and attention (Posner, Nissen, and Ogden, 1978)Flanker compatibility (Eriksen and Eriksen, 1974) Inattentional blindness (Mack and Rock, 1998; Simons and Chabris, 1999)Object-based attention (Egly, Driver and Rafal, 1994)Semantic processing with shadowing (Gray and Wedderburn, 1960; Mackay, 1973; Eich, 1984)Stroop Effect (Stroop, 1935)Target identification in high- and low-load conditions (Lavie, 2005)