Attention


Passive Attention:
stimulus itself grabs our attention (whether we want it to or not)
Active Attention:
we intentionally direct our awareness to some stimulus
PASSIVE ATTENTION: Moments of attention evident in:
  1. Orienting to direction of sound

  2. Bradycardic heart response

  3. "Early P3" in auditory-evoked EEG
(Huron, 1992, 1991, 1990)








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