Automaticity
Refers to automatic processing due to practice or salience, evident in the Stroop task where naming the color of an incongruent color word is slow.
Stimulus Driven Attention
Attention driven by external stimuli rather than internal goals.
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Automaticity
Refers to automatic processing due to practice or salience, evident in the Stroop task where naming the color of an incongruent color word is slow.
Stimulus Driven Attention
Attention driven by external stimuli rather than internal goals.
Voluntary Attention
Attention that is consciously directed towards a specific goal.
Attentional Bias
Behavior reflects the output from different mechanisms, such as enhanced visual processing, quicker object identification, or enhanced orienting responses.
Short Term Memory
Allows retaining information for a relatively short duration through encoding, storage, and retrieval.
Working Memory
A form of short-term memory that allows a person to hold online, and manipulate a certain amount of information for a few seconds after it has been presented.
Consciousness
The normal mental condition of the waking state of humans, characterized by the experience of perceptions, thoughts, feelings, awareness of the external world, and often self-awareness.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness
How do physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience?
Social Function of Consciousness
Suggests that the subjective experience of ourselves helps to understand others
Conscious Will
When a thought appears in consciousness just before an action, is consistent with the action, and is not accompanied by conspicuous alternative causes of the action, we experience conscious will.
Libet Experiment
Preparatory motor activity precedes the conscious decision to move.
Unconscious Determinants of Free Decisions
The outcome in a dual-choice paradigm can be predicted from brain activity patterns up to seven seconds prior to the actual conscious decision.
Neurobiological Correlates of Consciousness
Consciousness depends on many brain processes and rather the integration of brain functioning is crucial.