Attention and Cognitive Control of Behavior
| Dates: | October 26, 2020 |
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| Meets: | Mon. from 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM |
| Location: | Online Presentation |
| Cost: | $0.00 |
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Have you ever been so distracted while driving on the interstate that you drove right past your exit? In this talk, Keith Hutchison, professor of psychology at Montana State University, will discuss the importance of attentional control, or the ability to orchestrate thought and action in accord with internal goals in the face of distraction, especially in situations involving high distraction or conflict. Psychological experiments are useful in discovering breakdowns in attentional control, which can assist in identifying transient states such as distractibility, mind wandering, deception and anxiety. Such experiments can also help detect neurological deficits like those that appear during the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease.
| Fee: | $0.00 |
Online Presentation
This is a real-time (live) online class that meets at the specified day(s)/time(s) listed.We will send you a reminder email with login instructions one business day before the program start date. If there are additional sessions, we will send reminders the morning of those sessions.
Keith Hutchinson
Keith Hutchison is a professor in the Department of Psychology at MSU and the editor of the “Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.” He received his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the State University of New York at Albany and served a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on the interplay between attention, memory and language in young adults, older adults, and individuals diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.