Types of Attention

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What is top-down/active attention?
Attention that uses previous knowledge, memory and expectation to direct resources and respond.
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What is bottom up/passive attention?
Attention that uses a steady sequence of cognitive processs, begins with the presentation of a stimulus and ends with a response or action.
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What is external attention?
The selection and modulation of sensory information in the environment.
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What is internal attention?
The selection and modulation of sensory information which is internally integrated, such as LTM and working memory.
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What type of attention would you use when presented with two or more stimulus at the same time, but you must only attend to one?
Focused/Selective Attention
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What type of attention provides information about processing limitations and the capacity of attentional mechanisms?
Divided Attention
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Who proposed a dual-model of top-down control, in which a fronto-parietal component initiates and adjusts attentional control, and a cingulo-operculiar component provides a stable set maintenance?
Dosenbach et al., (2008)
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Who highlighted the separation of internal and external attention, by showing that autobiographical planning engages the DMN, and visuo-spatial planning engages the dorsal network?
Spreng et al., (2010)
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Who claims that selective attention influences working memory, and that there is top-down modulation during expectation, encoding and memory retrieval?
Gazzaley & Nobre (2012)
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