Study Questions: Visual Attention

1. Briefly describe the hemi-neglect syndrome. Damage to what brain area is associated with these symptoms?

2. What is blind-sight?

3. Distinguish between overt and covert visual attention.

4. Briefly describe the set-size effect for visual search. How does it differ for parallel and serial searches? For serial searches, how does it differ between target-present and target-absent trials? Why?

5. What is change blindness? What does it indicate about the function of visual attention?

6. Describe physiological correlates of visual attention.