TB9 P&C Lecture 2; Perception and Attention

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1. Which of these do attentional blink task findings NOT suggest?

  • The amygdala is important for emotional word processing
  • Low level perceptual processes can influence attentional blink
  • The emotional content of unconscious words facilitates concious detection
  • High level semantic processes such as word recognition take place unconciously in a rapid sequence
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2. How do binocular rivalry tasks work?

  • People have a colour dominance in which colour is seen first, red or green. Can control which stimuli participant is consciously aware of using filters on each eye.
  • Because of scotomas resulting from lesions to the PVC, there is no awareness of visual stimuli in the lesioned location.

3. In studies of blindsight pps, what was found re; amygdala activation?

  • Amygdala active when stimulus in sighted visual areas but not in scotoma
  • Amygdala discriminates emotions of faces even if in scotoma i.e below concious processing
  • Amygdala cannot discriminate emotions of faces in scotoma

4. Which task would you use to measure attentional maintaining?

  • Target onset detection task
  • Visual feature pop-out
  • Emotional stroop task
  • Attentional blink

5. What is a boundary condition?

  • None of the above
  • Emotion does not affect stimulus onset, but does affect more complex processes of perception and search
  • Emotion affects neither stimulus onset nor complex processes of perception and search
  • Emotion affects both stimulus onset and complex processes of perception and search

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