Identifies the message that should be focused on and passes on only that message (discarding irrelevant content) to the detector.

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Filter Model of attention (bottleneck; early selection)

Goldstein, E. B. (2014). Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience. Nelson Education.


Cognitive psychology: Connecting mind, research and everyday experience

Holds information about stimuli for a brief period time (a fraction of a second) and then transfers it to the filter.

Sensory memory in the filter model of attention

Filter in the filter model of attention

Processes the information received from the filter to only retain higher-level characteristics of the message (such as meaning). 

Detector in the filter model of attention

Detection replaces sensory memory to fill the role of detecting the existence of different stimuli. Recognition replaces detector to fill the role of recognizing the meaning of a stimuli.

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