Psychology and Neuroscience

Part One: Cocktail Party Effect and Selection Theories of Attention

What neurophysiological processes determine your attention?

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Keywords and ideas

  1. Cocktail party effect → being able to listen to someone while ignoring all the other sounds;
  2. Early selection models → filter is located and pre-programmed in the beginning of the process;
  3. Late selection models → filter is programmed at the end of the process;
  4. Broadbent’s filter → eliminates all unattended messages;
  5. Attenuation model of attention → early selection → intensifies attended messages and weakens unattended messages;
  6. Memory selection model of attention → late selection → intensifies attended messages and weakens unattended messages;
  7. Multimode model of attention → a model that proposes one can shift between early and physical selection to late and semantic selection, and vice versa;
  8. Physical selection → selection based on pitch, loudness, color, direction etc.;
  9. Semantic selection → selection based on personal significance and memory.

Abstract

This article is mostly meant as self-reflection, namely to enhance my own learning, which explains the unoriginality. I don’t, however, see any negatives from sharing…

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Lorenz Duremdes, Polymath
Psychology, Neuroscience, and Theories

Primary: Intelligence Amplification (Overlap: Computer Science) | Secondary: Sports (Data) Science (Specialization: Road Cycling and Resistance Training)