Psychology
W2225y
Attention and Perception 3 pts. Spring 2008
MW 6:10 - 7:25PM. Room 614 Schermerhorn Hall
Hakwan Lau
h.lau@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
V. Reading list and weekly syllabus
For most weeks, the main reading is a recent review (either journal article or book chapter), selected particularly for its readability. There are also additional readings, which usually describe interesting key experiments in detail. Comprehensive lecture notes will be provided to assist review, but students should read the primary articles, and skim the additional readings, before class.
Below is the preliminary reading list, which is subject to minor revision.
Week 1 Jan 23
The classical debate: Early vs. late selection
Main reading:
Driver J.
A selective review of selective attention research from the past century.
Br J Psychol. 2001 Feb;92 Part 1:53-78. (only pages 53-59)
Additional: same paper, pages 59-78
Week 2 Jan 28 & 30
Inattentional blindness and attention capture
Main reading:
Simons DJ.
Attentional capture and inattentional blindness.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2000 Apr;4(4):147-155.
Additional:
Simons DJ, Chabris CF.
Gorillas in our midst: sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events.
Perception. 1999;28(9):1059-74.
Rees G, Russell C, Frith CD, Driver J.
Inattentional blindness versus inattentional amnesia for fixated but ignored
words.
Science. 1999 Dec 24;286(5449):2504-7
Week 3 Feb 4 & 6
Change blindness
Main reading:
Simons DJ, Rensink RA.
Change blindness: past, present, and future.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2005 Jan;9(1):16-20
Additional:
Beck DM, Muggleton N, Walsh V, Lavie N.
Right parietal cortex plays a critical role in change blindness.
Cereb Cortex. 2006 May;16(5):712-7.
Simons DJ, Nevarez G, Boot WR.
Visual sensing IS seeing: why "mindsight," in hindsight, is blind.
Psychol Sci. 2005 Jul;16(7):520-4.
Week 4 Feb 11 & 13
Resolving the classical debate: The load theory of attentional selection
+ 1st in-class exam
Main reading: Lavie N.
Distracted and confused?: selective attention under load.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2005 Feb;9(2):75-82.
Additional:
Bahrami B, Lavie N, Rees G.
Attentional load modulates responses of human primary visual cortex to invisible stimuli.
Curr Biol. 2007 Mar 20;17(6):509-13.
Cartwright-Finch U, Lavie N.
The role of perceptual load in inattentional blindness.
Cognition. 2007 Mar;102(3):321-40.
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Week 5 Feb 18 & 20
Feature integration theory and visual search
Main reading:
Wolfe JM.
Moving towards solutions to some enduring controversies in visual search.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2003 Feb;7(2):70-76.
Additional:
Treisman A.
How the deployment of attention determines what we see.
Vis cogn. 2006 Aug 1;14(4-8):411-443.
Week 6 Feb 25 & 27
Attention and the binding problem
Main reading:
Treisman A.
The binding problem.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 1996 Apr;6(2):171-8.
Additional:
Reynolds JH, Desimone R.
The role of neural mechanisms of attention in solving the binding problem.
Neuron. 1999 Sep;24(1):19-29, 111-25.
Week 7 Mar 3 & 5
Prospective vs. retrospective attention
Main readings:
Moore T, Armstrong KM, Fallah M.
Visuomotor origins of covert spatial attention.
Neuron. 2003 Nov 13;40(4):671-
Additional:
Landman R, Spekreijse H, Lamme VA.
Large capacity storage of integrated objects before change blindness.
Vision Res. 2003 Jan;43(2):149-64.
Ruff CC, Kristj‡nsson A, Driver J.
Readout from iconic memory and selective spatial attention involve similar neural
processes.
Psychol Sci. 2007 Oct;18(10):901-9
Week 8 Mar 10 & 12
The Neuronal Consequences of Attention
Main reading:
Treue S.
Neural correlates of attention in primate visual cortex.
Trends Neurosci. 2001 May;24(5):295-300.
Additional:
Bisley JW, Goldberg ME.
Neuronal activity in the lateral intraparietal area and spatial attention.
Science. 2003 Jan 3;299(5603):81-6.
Term break
Week 9 Mar Mar 24 & 26
Biased competition model
+ 2nd in-class exam
Main reading:
Kastner S, Ungerleider LG.
The neural basis of biased competition in human visual cortex.
Neuropsychologia. 2001;39(12):1263-76.
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Week 10 Mar 31 & Apr 2
Neglect & extinction
Main reading:
Milner AD, McIntosh RD.
The neurological basis of visual neglect.
Curr Opin Neurol. 2005 Dec;18(6):748-53.
Additional reading:
Rees G, Wojciulik E, Clarke K, Husain M, Frith C, Driver J.
Unconscious activation of visual cortex in the damaged right hemisphere of a
parietal patient with extinction.
Brain. 2000 Aug;123 ( Pt 8):1624-33.
Week 11 Apr 7 & 9
Signal detection theory and attention
Main reading:
Gorea A. & Sagi D. (2005).
Decision nd Attention
In L. Itti, G. Rees & J. Tsotsos (Eds), Neurobiology of Attention, Academic Press / Elsevier (pp 152-159)
Additional:
Gorea A, Caetta F, Sagi D
Criteria interactions across visual attributes.
Vision Res. 2005 Sep;45(19):2523-32.
Heeger D
Introductory notes on signal detection theory
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~david/sdt/sdt.html
Week 12 Apr 14 & 16
Mechanisms of endogenous and exogenous attention
Main reading:
Corbetta M, Shulman GL.
Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain.
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2002 Mar;3(3):201-15.
Attentional:
Corbetta M, Kincade MJ, Lewis C, Snyder AZ, Sapir A.
Neural basis and recovery of spatial attention deficits in spatial neglect.
Nat Neurosci. 2005 Nov;8(11):1603-10.
Week 13 Apr 21 & 23
Attentional blink
+ 3rd in-class exam
Main reading:
Hommel B, Kessler K, Schmitz F, Gross J, Akyurek E, Shapiro K, Schnitzler A.
How the brain blinks: towards a neurocognitive model of the attentional blink.
Psychol Res. 2006 Nov;70(6):425-35.
Additional:
Olivers CN, Nieuwenhuis S.
The beneficial effects of additional task load, positive affect, and
instruction on the attentional blink.
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 2006 Apr;32(2):364-79.
Week 14 Apr 28
Does attention speed up perception? Attentional prior entry
Main reading:
Spence C, Shore DI, Klein RM.
Multisensory prior entry.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 2001 Dec;130(4):799-832.
Additional:
Shore DI, Spence C, Klein RM.
Visual prior entry.
Psychol Sci. 2001 May;12(3):205-12.
Week 15 May 5
Review and questions session
Announcement of potential final-exam questions