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Issues on Visual Attention
This course is designed for graduate students specialized in perceptual and cognitive psychology. Topics include the selection unit of attention (space, object, feature, or part), the characteristics of visual spatial attention (distribution, movement, split or not), the relationship between attentional capture and visual stimuli, inattentional blindness, repetition blindness, attentional blink, change blindness, the physiological mechanism of attention, and the relationship of attention and eye movement. Students are required to read papers, report the contents, comment and discuss in class. The aim is to finish a research or review project in a year. To fulfill this goal, the reading of first semester will be mainly exploratory, and will focus on a specific subject in the second semester. Students are expected to design and execute their experiments in the second semester. Performance evaluation is based on weekly reading, discussion, presentation and final research report.