Exam 7: Attention and Scene Perception

In a probe detection experiment, an invalid cue is a

_______ refers to the failure to notice-or at least to report-a stimulus that would be easily reportable if it were attended.

During response enhancement, a neuron responding to an attended stimulus might have a _______ response.

_______ stage processing of a stimulus occurs before selective attention is deployed to that stimulus.

Your lucky neon yellow shirt should be easy to find in your bedroom because its color is bright and distinct compared to your other clothing items. In other words, your neon yellow shirt has high

Suppose you go to a sporting event in a large stadium. At a glance, you can tell that there are more people rooting for the home team than the away team, based on the distribution of the two teams' colors in the stands. What aspects of attention support this rapid assessment?

What causes visual field neglect and what are some of its symptoms?

Suppose you lose your keys. You look everywhere and can't find them until you notice them on the table right in front of you, clearly within view the whole time. What phenomenon have you just experienced?

Refer to the figure. This figure depicts what can happen when a patient with _______ tries to copy a drawing.

Research suggests that you could reduce the magnitude of your attentional blink by

Describe the three ways that neurons might change their responses as the result of attention.

Patients with _______ damage have problems directing attention to objects and places on their left.

The average and distribution of properties, like orientation or color, over a set of objects or a region in a scene are called the _______ of the scene and is/are computed by the _______ pathway.

Refer to the figure. What types of search tasks are shown in the figure, from left to right?

In a _______ task, the target is defined by the presence of a single feature, or attribute, such as a salient color or orientation.

_______ attention involves restricting processing to a subset of the possible stimuli.

In an "efficient" search, the slope of the function relating _______ time to set size is about 0 ms/item.

There is more information in the world than we can process at once. What do you call processing some information at the expense of other information?

Suppose you are at a party, standing by yourself for a moment. The group next to you is having an interesting conversation, full of gossip, and you are listening in. If you do not give any external signs that you are paying attention to their conversation, what kind of attention are you using?

You're searching your bedroom for your lucky neon pink shirt, which is the only neon pink thing you own. What kind of search is that?