Cognitive PsychologyChapter 3Attention and consciousnessAttention and consciousness have the idea of selection in common.We attend to particular aspects of information hitting our senses and seem consciously aware of only a limited view of the world at any one time. Attention is a limited resource that is deployed to facilitate the processing of critical information.External attention: selecting and controlling incoming sensory information (like features, objects, spatial locations, sensory modality and time points).Internal attention: selecting control strategies and maintaining internally generated information. It involves regulating our internal mental life so we can achieve our goals (like task rules, responses, long-term memory and working memory).The attention system: can be seen as independent from processing systems and it utilizes a network of anatomical areas that carry out functions that are specified in cognitive terms.Three basic components:AlertingOrienting (type of external attention)Executive function (type of internal attention) The alerting system is comprised of brain areas in the brainstem and frontal cortex that are responsible for achieving a state of arousal.The orienting system includes brain areas in frontal and partial cortex that direct our processing resources to incoming information and includes areas such as the frontal eye fields that are involved with rapid strategic control of attention.This orienting system is external attention since it has the function of orienting our sensory processing to incoming information.The frontal eye fields are found in the frontal cortex and are involved with the generation and control of eye movements.The...