Exam 6: Visual Attention

 In an fMRI study by Datta and DeYoe (2009), participants covertly shifted their attention within a display. This shifting of attention resulted in the activation of _____.

 People tend to fixate first on high contrast or unique (relative to the surrounding area) points in a visual scene. This is a result of _____ and is a _____ process.

 Yasmen is walking in a mall and thinks she sees a man wearing a red dress. She takes a longer look, and realizes she has seen a man in a suit walking next to a woman in a red dress. This is a natural example of _____.

Describe the "occluded rod" paradigm. (b) Describe what it revealed about the relationship between perceptual completion, motion perception, attention, and scan paths in infants.

 _____ described attention as "the taking possession by the mind, in clear and vivid form, of one out of what seem several simultaneously possible objects or trains of thought."

 Simons and Chabris showed a video of students passing a basketball and asked participants to count how many passes made. In the video, a person in a gorilla suit walked through the basketball players for 5 seconds. Approximately how many of the participants reported seeing the "gorilla"

 Which statement about change blindness is most accurate

Discuss how Treisman's feature integration theory addresses the binding problem. (b) What are illusory conjunctions, and why are they support for feature integration theory?

 In the _____ procedure, participants attend to a central task, but also have to complete a peripheral task.

 Treisman and Schmidt prevented the focused attention stage from occurring by _____.