Visual Perception
Speech Perception
Anything Goes
Attention Tasks
Attention Theory
100
This region of the brain, located in the occipical lobe, is mainly responsible for processing visual stimuli
what is the primary visual cortex?
100
This term describes the most basic unit of spoken language
what is a phoneme?
100
This type of stimulus refers not to the physical object, but to the light it reflects which lands upon your retina.
What is a proximal stimulus?
100
These types of attention tasks requires a participant to focus on one stimulus, while ignoring others.
What are selective attention tasks?
100
This term describes the act of attempting two tasks at the same time
What is multitasking?
200
The recognition by components theory proposes that three-dimensional shapes can be made up from arrangements of these simpler components
What are geons?
200
This phenomenon describes our ability to "fill in the blanks" using context cues to comprehend interrupted speech
What is phonemic restoration?
200
This concentration of mental activities allow us to focus on and take in a limited portion of information from our senses and memory
What is attention?
200
This task involve finding a specific target among many distractors
What is a visual search task?
200
This component of feature integration theory more heavily involves top-down processing to attend to stimuli individually.
What is focused attention?
300
This type of perceptual stimulus is the kind that is physically present in the world, like an apple or a water bottle
What is a Distal Stimulus?
300
This term describes the individual differences in pitch and pronunciation of phonemes
What is inter-speaker variability?
300
This theory of speech perception proposes that speech perception is a learned skill, acquired with the same components used to process any other auditory stimulus.
What is the general mechanism approach?
300
This task asks participants to attend to specific information played into one ear, while different information is played into the other ear.
What is dichotic listening?
300
This effect describes the difficulty in naming the ink color of a word depicting an in-congruent color.
What is the Stroop effect?
400
We typically see edges even when they are not physically present in this type of illusion
What is an illusory contour? (or subjective contour)
400
This effect describes our ability to combine visual and auditory information to comprehend speech.
What is the McGurk effect?
400
This phenomenon describes our inability to control our thought patterns, especially when instructed to avoid specific thoughts.
What are ironic effects of mental control?
400
A visual search task typically utilizes this kind of processing, relying on automatic, sensory information
what is bottom-up processing?
400
This early theory of attention suggests a limit to how much information we can attend to and process at one time.
What is a bottleneck theory?
500
This region of the brain's temporal cortex appears to be most active when participants view human faces
what is the fusiform face area?
500
This term describes the phenomenon where phoneme pronunciation may change based upon the recent movement and positioning of the mouth, tongue and lips
What is coarticulation?
500
This phenomenon describes the ability of some visually blind people to accurately describe some characteristics of visual stimuli, such as it's location or color, despite damage to the visual perception system.
What is blindsight?
500
This is a modified stroop task which demonstrates attentional biases in specific participants, like people with phobic disorders, or combat veterans.
What is an emotional stroop task?
500
This portion of the brain located in the prefrontal cortex is thought to contribute to top-down processes of attention, as well as inhibition.
What is the executive attention network?