Selective Focus attention may involve ignoring one set of characteristics to decode another.
Actually, we have discussed numerous examples of figure-ground tasks for the visual modality and signal önoise discrimination for the auditory modality in the last three topics.
What we are demonstrating here are more abstract figure-ground attention tasks that require ignoring one set of characteristics to decode another.
1. In the following Selective Focus example, (on the next page) the task is to read all the words in the chart and, if possible record the length of time it takes.
(Actually it would be better if the list were at least a page long.) Then go through list again but this time donât read the word·just tell its color! Note the time difference.