Attention
Top-Down and Face Processing
Bottom-Up Processing
The Visual System
Cognitive Neuroscience
100
Not noticing the moon walking bear in the basketball video is an example of this.
What is inattentional blindness?
100
An ambiguous figure that can be a 13 or a B depending on the surrounding symbols is an example of this.
What are context effects?
100
The existence of grandmother cells would support this theory.
What is template theory?
100
This pathway is involved in identifying what an object is.
What is the ventral pathway?
100
In order for a neuron to fire, it must reach this.
What is a threshold?
200
Priming, the tip of the tongue phenomenon and blindsight are examples of what type of attention?
What is preconscious?
200
People with this condition cannot recognize faces.
What is prosopagnosia?
200
Stabilized retinal images support this theory of pattern recognition.
What is feature theory?
200
When activity in one region tends to inhibit responding in adjacent areas.
What is lateral inhibition?
200
The process of converting physical energy into electrical signals.
What is transduction?
300
Type of attention that occurs when multiple sources of information are attended to at one time.
What is divided attention?
300
Filling in missing sounds using our knowledge of words is called this.
What is phonemic restoration?
300
These theories cannot explain how we recognize faces.
What are feature theory, template theory and RBC theory?
300
These types of cells have either an on-center/off-surround organization or vice versa.
What are ganglion cells?
300
This lobe of the brain is involved in hearing and language
What is the temporal lobe?
400
When first learning how to read, it is a ____ process. With practice, it becomes a _____ process, which is why the stroop task is so difficult.
What is controlled and automatic?
400
In the kitchen scene experiment, people looked more at objects that violated their ___________.
What are expectations?
400
This model is an example of a computational model and contains “demons”
What is the pandemonium model?
400
The phenomenon of afterimages can be explained by this theory.
What is the Opponent Process Theory of Color Vision?
400
According to this property an action potential always has same strength. Either you get it or you don't.
What is the all-or-none property?
500
One explanation of visuospatial neglect is the disengage deficit. This other is this.
What is unbalanced competition between hemispheres?
500
According the interactive activation model, repetition priming occurs because of this.
What is words that you have just seen are easier/faster to recognize the 2nd time because they are still activated?
500
This theory can explain how we perceive the arrangement of features in an object, but this theory cannot.
What is RBC theory and feature theory?
500
The lateral geniculate nucleus receives information from these cells and sends information to this brain area.
What are the ganglion cells and the occipital lobe/primary visual cortex?
500
Patients with visuospatial neglect have damage to this side of their brain and will thus ignore the left side of their visual field because of this type of brain organization.
What is right side, contralateral?
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