Archive for the ‘Cognitive Psychology’ Category
Friday, May 30th, 2008
“continuous partial attention n. A state in which most of one’s attention is on a primary task, but where one is also monitoring several background tasks just in case something more important or interesting comes up. Also: CPA.”
Continuous partial attention is one of the side effects of mobile networked computing; ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
The image below displays a simulation of human eye movement in the form of heat maps.
The Feng-GUI heatmap service is an automatic alternative to eye-tracking. Unlike eye-tracking or click-based heatmaps, Feng-GUI creates heatmaps based on an algorithm that predicts what a real human would be most likely to look ...
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Thursday, October 14th, 2004
Cognitive Psychology
is study of attention, memory, language, perception and thinking in humans
is the systematic study of human mind and how it processes information
also deals with pattern recognition, imagery, nueroscience, intelligence etc.,
The human mind has 3 kinds of processors
- Sensorial/ Perceptual : Ears & Eyes : These store visual and auditory ...
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Monday, October 11th, 2004
Given any situation, there are “n” no of sensory inputs (stimuli), which impacts the human mind. To handle such humongous amount of data, the human brain acts as a pattern-processing machine and starts to group them to reduce the load.
It focuses on stimulus, which is important for the User. This ...
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