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Video Clips
The three major theories of selective attention: Early selection theory, late selection theory, and attenuation theory
An overview of the study of attention from the turn of the last century until today and Posner’s model of three main attention networks that constitute the basis for consciousness.
The relationship between attention and visual perception: Visual perception, attention, and fMRI methods to study the perception-attention relation.
The "invisible gorilla" experiment: how we often miss major details when we're concentrating on something else.
Audio Clips
How memory can be deceiving and is strongly influenced by attention. A discussion on what it is that captures our focus.
From BBC Radio 4's Mind Changers, this program examines Donald Broadbent, whose model demonstrated that our attention is limited by the amount of information we can focus on at a particular time.
Debunking the myth that people can multitask effectively.
Dr. Gustav Kuhn of Goldsmiths, University of London discusses his article, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, on what magic - one of the oldest art forms around - can teach us about human perception.
How our brain can trick us into thinking we know and see way more than we actually do. Intuition factors into how we make decisions (sometimes for worse), and how evolution can inform on why this might be.
