Fall Semester (August - December 2008)

 

Discussion Questions

Though the presenting student is responsible for generating 4-5 questions to keep the discussion going, I expect everyone else to send at least two discussion question based on the readings by 9 pm on Tuesday, the day before lecture, and I will post there here so people can have a chance to review these and think about them before class

September 3rd: Sensory Memory, Pattern Recognition, the lead up to attention

September 10: Attention basics, development of attention

September 17: Gaze cues, faces, arrows, other cues

September 24: Object/Location attention

October 1: Change blindness/inattentional blindness

October 8: Visual search in and out of the lab

October 15: Automatic and Controlled Processing

October 22: Eye Movements (with some aging thrown in)

October 29: Perception and Action/Performance

November 5: Errors of Attention/Perception, Visual Illusions

November 12: Emotion and Attention

November 19: Video Games and Performance

December 3: Cognitive Disorders, effect on attention/performance