Applied Attention & Mental Workload Class Log
Spring 2018
Tuesday, 8 January
Develop structure of course and student responsibilities; All students need to
purchase copy of Wickens & McCarley (2008) text (via Amazon, etc.). First
4 chapters available online via syllabus. Assignment: read W&McC
chapters 1-2 for Thursday's class; Block-1 student paper presentation
assignments will be made during week of Jan 18-17. Presentations will be start
the following week.
Discussion topic:
Extracurricular lab section with in-depth focus upon fNIRS and instantialtion of
openNIRS data recording capability.
Thursday, 10 January
Tuesday, 15 January
Thursday, 17 January
W&M Chap 3: Change blindness;
Inattention blindness; Ambient-Focal visual system dichotomy
In-class
presentation schedule update: Sterling (1/29), Foss (1/31) and Marron (2/7).
Tuesday, 22 January
W&M Chap 3: Covert vs overt attention
revisited (99% rule); Attention spotlight metaphor (including "zoom lens"
variation); Eriksen flanker paradigm; Posner cueing paradigm; endogenous
(top-down) versus Exogenous (bottom-up) steering of selective attention.
Complementary roles of ambient/focal systems in dynamic visual attention (i.e.,
"where" vs. "what", respectively). Properties contributing to strong
bottom-up stimulus salience.
Note: first
fNIRS project group meeting scheduled for Monday, 28 January (SDU 203)
Thursday, 24 January