Question

Compare and contrast early and late selection models of attention, and provide examples of each

Answer 1

Compare and contrast early and late selection models of attention

	Early selection	Late selection
Founder	Broadbent in 1958	Deutsch & Deutsch in 1963
Methodology	Attention filters out on the basis of physical features	Attention filters only after meaning is analyzed
Example	Filtering things out on basis of their colour, brightness, location in space	Information gets processed to a high degree of processing to level of meaning. Once processed, the meaning do the most important things to get selected for further processing
Stages	multiple stages of information processing where attentional selection is occuring	sometimes it operates on stimulus level features and other times other basis of meaning