Counsciousness

[antihero]

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In my neuroanatomybook, consciousness is divided into Content and Level of consciousness Level of consciousness is further subdivided into alertness attention and awareness. 1. Have I understood it correctly, if alertness is like the power button for being able to respond to stimuli, while attention is the process of selecting stimuli to respond to whilst ignoring other? 2. Attention is divided into directed (selective) attention and sustained attention. Let's assume that I am listening to music while counting the drops that seep from my leaky copper pipe. If I can count three drops while having music on my ear, I have selective attention. How many drops do I have to count before I show sustained attention? Or is by sustained vs selective attention, different behavior implied?

 

[toby jones]

hehe ya gotta love em.

alertness, attention, and awareness...

a stimulus is presented (briefly) before you and then it goes away. you have an sensory register representation of it (lasts up to a couple seconds before degrading depending on modality) then it takes active effort (sustained attention?) to 'refresh' the information to keep it in working memory.

we can of course attend to a stimulus that hasn't gone away. think the same notion of needing to 'refresh' (sustain attention?) might well apply, though. think the time is assumed to be benchmarked by the above (but could be that there is controversy over this).

could be that the distinction in this context is different from what i'm saying above, at any rate..

 

[rotator22]

How many drops do I have to count before I show sustained attention?

infinite🙄