Book Chapter5

Iconic Memory

A brief sensory memory that persist after the visual display is gone

Pre-attentive stage of attention

broad swath of the environment is processed in parallel.

Guided Search Model

Two sources of information for target selection

Flanker Task ( Lavigne Perceptual theory)

if flankers are incompatible (increasing task difficulty), reaction times and errors increase; if flankers are compatible (decreasing task difficulty), reaction times and errors decrease.

Endogenous attenuation is associated with which process

Top Down

Exogenous attention is associated with what process

Bottom down processing

The default network three main components

self-referential network, a network for memory and imagination, and a reflective network.

Neglect

being unaware of any stimuli presented to the field of view opposite a brain lesion.

Hermaniopia

loss of vision on one side of the visual field due to damage.