BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

The reading of Chapter 5 is essential to help us to understand the primary feature of attention, selectivity .  Our Selective Attention works like a beam of a flashlight, being more focused on what we want or expecting to see, leaving aside unimportant details that can represent a distraction against our ability to pay attention in a specific stimulus.  A simple experiment like “The Invisible Gorilla” (Neisser & Becklen, 1975), that shows how participants fail on perceive what is going on ( someone disguised by a Gorilla) beyond the ballplayer group in white T-shirts in the scene is vital to illustrate how selective attention works. Several relevant studies about attention are based on how people process the perception of hearing stimulus, for example. Perceiving involves a commitment of mental resources that helping to prime the detectors needed for perception.  The studies of attention are necessary to investigate why it is easier to stay focused on what peop...

As the previous chapter of the book Cognition: Exploring the Science of the Mind (2016) highlights, more than one part of the brain is needed to the simplest human achievement. Providing substantial information about how visual perception, chapter three offers us a broader view of how of our multi-specialized areas of the brain enable us to make use of several mechanisms that seek to guarantee our survivor and interfere in the way that we interact with everything that surrounds us. Is acknowledged that many brain areas are involved in handling aspects of vision such as spatial perception, color, depth, and motion, for example. Most of the brain processes related to vision occur at the same time, in what is called Parallel Processing. The visual system controlled by the brain permits us to realize that an ordinary task like pouring tea in a cup, requires some distinct specialized operations that are processed in different areas of the bra...