Psychology and Neuroscience
Part One: Cocktail Party Effect and Selection Theories of Attention
What neurophysiological processes determine your attention?
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6 min readNov 6, 2019
Keywords and ideas
- Cocktail party effect → being able to listen to someone while ignoring all the other sounds;
- Early selection models → filter is located and pre-programmed in the beginning of the process;
- Late selection models → filter is programmed at the end of the process;
- Broadbent’s filter → eliminates all unattended messages;
- Attenuation model of attention → early selection → intensifies attended messages and weakens unattended messages;
- Memory selection model of attention → late selection → intensifies attended messages and weakens unattended messages;
- Multimode model of attention → a model that proposes one can shift between early and physical selection to late and semantic selection, and vice versa;
- Physical selection → selection based on pitch, loudness, color, direction etc.;
- 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…