What does 'attention' mean to you? This free course, Attention, will help you to examine how we 'pay attention'. How do we manage to single out sounds and images that require attention and how easy is it to distract someone and why.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Auditory attention
- 1 Auditory attention
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Disentangling sounds
- 1.3 Attending to sounds
- 1.4 Eavesdropping on the unattended message
- 1.5 Summary of Section 1
- 2 Visual attention
- 2 Visual attention
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Knowing about unseen information
- 2.3 Towards a theory of parallel processing
- 2.4 Rapid serial visual presentation
- 2.5 Masking and attention
- 2.6 Summary of Section 2
- 3 Integrating information in clearly-seen displays
- 3 Integrating information in clearly-seen displays
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Serial and parallel search
- 3.3 Non-target effects
- 3.4 The ‘flanker’ effect
- 3.5 Summary of Section 3
- 4 Attention and distraction
- 4 Attention and distraction
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The effects of irrelevant speech
- 4.3 Attending across modalities
- 4.4 Summary of Section 4
- 5 The neurology of attention
- 5 The neurology of attention
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 The effects of brain damage
- 5.3 Event-related potentials
- 5.4 Summary of Section 5
- 6 Concluding thoughts
- 6 Concluding thoughts
- Further reading
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
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