Exam 6: Visual Attention

Nicki walks into her friend's bathroom and sees a blender next to the sink. She spends more time looking at that blender than she would have spent looking at a soap dispenser in the same position. Her increased gaze is a reflection of a ________ in action.

Parkhurst et al. (2002) showed that observers make initial fixations in a visual scene based on

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

Kelly is participating in an attention study. She is asked to fixate on a cross in the middle of the screen and watch for a word to appear in place of the cross. When the word appears she is using ______ attention to perceive it.

(a) Discuss the method and results of Rensink's research on change blindness. (b) What is the relationship between change blindness and continuity errors? (c) Describe a specific example of a "continuity error".

(a) Define inattentional blindness. (b) Describe the method and results of Simons and Chabris (1999) research on inattentional blindness.

The spreading enhancement effect of attention can help us perceive

When Levin and Simons did not tell participants that changes in "body position or clothing" would occur in a video of a conversation between two women, approximately ___ % of the participants noticed any change.

(a) 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.

R.M., a patient with Balint's syndrome, reported illusory conjunctions

Levin and Simons showed a video of two women having a conversation. As the view switches between the women, other things in the scene change. Which change was noticed by the majority of the participants?

Which of the following is true regarding task-irrelevant stimuli?

Discuss the differences in attention between people who have autism and those who do not, from behavioral and physiological perspectives.

The incidence of change blindness __________ when a cue is added to the scene that indicates which part of the scene has changed.

Vaco is playing basketball, and does a "no-look" pass to a teammate. This demonstrates the idea that attention

The important finding of Carrasco et al.'s (2004) research was that

Johnson et al. (2004) presented moving occluded rods to 3-month-old infants, And classifed the infants as "perceivers" or "nonperceivers" of a unified, occluded Rod) The main finding of the study was

_________ can be generated based on saliency principles and used to predict early fixations in a scene.

Discuss the three factors involved in determining what we fixate on in a visual scene.