Question

you have dropped your favorite, lucky pen in the grass as you walked across campus one day. The pen is a red, Cross pen that you receive from your favorite professor after completing yur independent study project. your head back out to the grass to look for your pen. You are doing a visual search task requiring you to use the dorsal frontal parietal and right temporal parietal attentional systems. Do you think you would be able to locate the pen and what might affect your success in bein able to have that pen with you in graduate school?

Answer 1

While looking for something that is lost, extra visual processing troops are put at use in order to get the job done. The processing is done in a way that items scanned visually are mentally categorized depending on the nature of those items. Even areas of the brain used for tasks like abstract thought were recruited for the searching process when these processes were studied elaborately by researchers. And while these brain areas were working overtime, other, less-related categories showed less stimulation than normal. The power to visually scan, the schemas formed and the ability to quickly categorize items depending on the level of exposure and experience with various items witnessed would decipher the level of success in this case. Also, the general attention span would play a role in determining the same.