Exam 9: Visual Attention

The tendency to respond more slowly or not at all to the second appearance of a target in an RSVP task when the second stimulus occurs within 500 ms of the first stimulus is known as ______.

Attentional blink is the tendency to respond faster to the second appearance of a target in an RSVP task when the second stimulus occurs after 1 second.

What is the name of the theory stipulating that some features can be processed in parallel and quickly prior to using attentional resources, whereas other visual characteristics require us to use attention and are done serially and therefore less quickly?

Rapid serial visual presentation paradigm is a method of ______.

Beck, Muggleton, Walsh, and Lavie (2006) used transcranial magnetic stimulation to examine change blindness.They tried various combinations of inhibiting the parietal lobes of participants while those participants were doing a change-blindness task.They found that ______.

Tamber-Rosenau, Esterman, Chiu, and Yantis (2011) conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging study with human participants to examine how the executive attention and orienting attention networks allocate attention in a visual attention task.Participants watched an RSVP display, consisting of two streams of letters, one to the left of fixation and one to the right of fixation.They found that ______.

The presence of visual abilities in the absence of V1 in the visual cortex--the patient claims to be blind but makes visual responses-is known as ______.

How does binocular rivalry demonstrate the top-down processing of perception?

Simons and Levin (1997) conducted a field experiment in which participants were chosen at random.In the experiment, an experimenter posing as a tourist asked a person on campus for directions.When the experimenter asking the question was changed, the researchers found that ______.

In Posner (1980), valid cues were found to result in ______ reaction times than neutral cues, but neutral cues were found to result in ______ times than invalid cues.

Give an example of covert attention and an example of overt attention.

In the Posner cueing paradigm, the participant maintains fixation at the central point.Cues indicate whether the target will appear on the left or the right.In most trials, the cue is valid; that is, the target appears on the indicated side.But in some trials, the cue is invalid; that is, the target appears on the opposite side of the cue.The experimenters measure the reaction time to indicate that the target is present.The results show that ______.

As Jules stares at the group of baseball players, his attention is drawn toward the one player not wearing a uniform.This is an example of ______.

Select all that apply.A patient with hemifield neglect was studied by Bisiach and Luzzatti (1978).They tested him on both perception and imagery tasks.They found that ______.

Compare and contrast selective attention and undivided attention.Give an example for each.

A phenomenon in which a static visual image leads to alternating perceptions is known as ______.

How does stimulus salience relate to attentional capture?

Rensink, O'Regan, and Clark (1997) showed photographs of a variety of scenes, one image at a time.After a set period of looking at each photograph, it would disappear and be replaced by a nearly identical image.They found that ______.

On a train, Federico focuses on reading a novel while other people are talking and the conductor collects fares.This example shows ______.

There is evidence to suggest that video game players ______.