3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Upper Division
This upper-level undergraduate course provides an overview of research and theory related to attention and cognitive control. The first half of the course focuses on selective attention to locations, objects, and features, as well as the role of attention in memory and skilled performance. The second half focuses on divided attention and cognitive control in multitasking situations, as well as aspects of adaptive, hierarchical, and inhibitory control. The goal of the course is to provide you with an understanding of major theoretical views, key experimental findings, and common research procedures related to attention and cognitive control.
Learning Outcomes1Define selective attention to locations, objects, and features.
2Describe the relationship between eye movements and attention.
3Identify the limits of attention.
4Describe the role of attention in memory and skilled performance.
5Discuss divided attention, dual-task, task switching performance, task interruption and mind wandering.
6Identify aspects of adaptive and hierarchical control.
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