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Location-Based Attention
Selective Attention as Filtering
DEMONSTRATION: Focusing on One Message
METHOD: Dichotic Listening
Cognitive Resources, Cognitive Load, and Task-Irrelevant Stimuli
METHOD: Flanker Compatibility Task
DEMONSTRATION: Stroop EffectTEST YOURSELF 4.1
DIVIDED ATTENTION
Divided Attention Can Be Achieved With Practice: Automatic Processing
Divided Attention When Tasks Are Harder: Controlled Processing
DEMONSTRATION: Detecting a Target
Distractions While Driving
ATTENTION AND VISUAL PERCEPTION
Inattentional Blindness
Change Detection
DEMONSTRATION: Change Detection
TEST YOURSELF 4.2
OVERT ATTENTION: ATTENDING BY MOVING OUR EYES
Eye Movements, Attention, and Perception
DEMONSTRATION: Looking for a Face in the Crowd
Bottom-Up Determinants of Eye Movements
Top-Down Determinants of Eye Movements
EYE MOVEMENTS COVERT ATTENTION: DIRECTING ATTENTION WITHOUT
Object-Based Attention
METHOD: Precueing
Object-Based AttentionFEATURE INTEGRATION THEORY
THE PHYSIOLOGY OF ATTENTION
Covert Attention Enhances Neural Responding
Attentional Processing Is Distributed Across the Cortex
THE CASE OF AUTISM SOMETHING TO CONSIDER: ATTENTION IN SOCIAL SITUATIONS—
CASE OF AUTISM
TEST YOURSELF 4.3
CHAPTER SUMMARY
THINK ABOUT IT
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE
KEY TERMS
MEDIA RESOURCES
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