Visual Systems and Attention. Neuroscience

 Explore the roles of the parietal lobe in visual remapping and attention processing.

Discuss and define the importance of “what” and “where” in this process.

Explain how the Bottleneck theory is important in intentional and change blindness. 

Book reference: The students guide to cognitive neuroscience 4th ed. by Jamie Ward

Unit 4 Assignment Guide

Some general recommendations
Your paper should be a minimum of 2 full pages of content answering the questions below. Note
that in the Assignment Requirement tab, you are required to utilize a minimum of two peer-
reviewed sources from Purdue Global Library in addition to your textbook to support your paper.
That means your paper should have 3 total resources. Webpages, books, encyclopedia,
dictionaries are not peer-reviewed sources. Peer-reviewed sources are generally understood to
be peer-reviewed articles from academic journals.

Your assignment should answer the following questions:

• Explore the role of the parietal lobe in visual remapping and attentional processing.

There is are two sections that discuss visual remapping on page 209 and page 226. Make
sure to connect the parietal lobe to both visual remapping AND attentional processing.

• Discuss the importance of “what” and “where” in this process.

Remember the “what” and “where” pathways discussed in Unit 3 and Unit 4? I
recommend defining each of these. Then, connect these pathways to vision and the
parietal lobe. See page 208 in your textbook.

• Explain how the Bottleneck theory is important in inattentional and change blindness.

Note inattentional blindness is different from change blindness. You must relate the
Bottleneck theory to both of these, not one or the other. The Bottleneck theory is
mentioned on page 202. Since your textbook doesn’t provide much information on the
Bottleneck theory, this would be a good area to look for supplemental peer-reviewed
articles.