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selective attention

Also known as: selective attention mechanisms

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Attention and consciousness - SelfAwarePatterns selfawarepatterns.com SelfAwarePatterns Jun 12, 2022 3 facts

claimNeuroscientific research indicates that selective attention is a multistep process occurring in both early and late processing stages, beginning in the thalamus and extending through sensory regions to motor regions.

claimSelective attention allows for information to be included in processing early on and subsequently excluded later.

claimSelective attention occurs at multiple processing levels in the brain and is not strictly a binary state of being attended to or not attended to.

(PDF) Unifying Theories of Consciousness, Attention, and ... academia.edu Academia.edu 3 facts

referenceJohnston, W. A., & Dark, V. J. (1986) provide a review of selective attention in the Annual Review of Psychology.

claimNeuroimaging studies using EEG, MEG, and fMRI are uncovering distinct neuronal correlates of selective attention and consciousness in dissociative paradigms, suggesting a functional dissociation where attention acts as an analyzer and consciousness acts as a synthesizer.

claimRecent research has challenged the belief that selective attention and consciousness are so tightly entangled that they cannot be individually examined.

A Survey of Incorporating Psychological Theories in LLMs - arXiv arxiv.org arXiv 3 facts

claimMaharaj et al. (2023) and Yu et al. (2022) leverage selective attention mechanisms in LLMs to detect hallucinations and extract relations.

referenceAnne M. Treisman authored 'Strategies and models of selective attention', published in Psychological Review, volume 76, issue 3, page 282, in 1969.

claimNottingham et al. (2024) developed a preprocessing model for Large Language Models that identifies and filters irrelevant data by implementing the principle of selective attention.

Attention and Consciousness in Psychology | PDF - Scribd scribd.com Scribd 2 facts

claimSelective attention allows individuals to focus on one conversation despite the presence of distractions.

claimAttention has four main functions: signal detection, search, selective attention, and divided attention.

Attention and Consciousness Overview | PDF | Priming (Psychology) scribd.com Scribd 1 fact

claimAttention involves active information processing, encompassing functions such as signal detection, vigilance, search, and selective attention.

The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems cambridge.org Cambridge University Press Mar 31, 2023 1 fact

quoteOne way to find out what something is good for is to examine what it is like not to have it. […] there is a broad spectrum of syndromes in which there is a loss of acknowledged awareness of capacities or their contents, ranging from detection, through selective attention, semantic and associative meaning, episodic memory, to language. […] The message that emerges from the clinic is unmistakable: all of the syndromes can possess implicit processing, but none of the patients can live by implicit processing alone. It cannot be used by the patient in thinking or in imagery, and this is a severe penalty. […] The amnesic patient is severely impaired, and requires continuous custodial care. Priming is intact, but of no evident use to the amnesic victim. He cannot relate what is primed today to what was primed yesterday, or to any other item in memory, including time and place and other (but not only) contextual information; he is functionally fixed in the semantic or procedural present. […] Similarly, the blindsight patient continues to fail to identify objects and to bump into them in his blind field. If he can detect a stimulus in the blind field, he does not know what it is. There may be some occasional benefit to him if he can duck as a rapidly zooming object approaches (although typically this is not a common response in blindsight subjects).

The function(s) of consciousness: an evolutionary perspective frontiersin.org Frontiers in Psychology Nov 25, 2024 1 fact

claimThe brain's gatekeeper function controls the contents of each fully realized conscious state through selective attention.

(PDF) On the function of consciousness - an adaptationist perspective academia.edu Academia.edu 1 fact

claimProposed functions of consciousness in cognitive processing include enabling selective attention to stimuli, facilitating the integration of sensory information, and providing feedback for action control.