HHS Perception and Attention in Sports Discussion

Our topic this week is attention and perception, which involves the sensations that we focus on and take in from our five senses. Make sure that your main post relates to this topic.

Be sure too that you are presenting something that you learned for the week. Note that it is not sufficient to discuss your thoughts and experiences in your main post without relating it to what you learn. It is all about your learning!  ? (This means that you should be citing a source or sources in your main post). Then, you can link it to your thoughts and experiences ? Please make sure to cite your sources. Any time you put something in writing from a source, it requires both intext citing and a full reference.

Challenge yourself to earn extra points through one of these accolades:

super scholarship (including and citing scholarly articles)

distinguished post

distinguished reply

good insight

cool idea

good application

One small example of an attention and perception question is: How do colors and images impact what we choose to focus on, and how do we retain information about what we see?

CLASSMATE 1-For this week’s discussion, I found a video that Hank with Crash Course made basically explaining the difference between sensation and perception. Hank explains how a neurologist named Oliver Sacks had a rare neurological disorder that made him unable to recognize faces including his own. The video explains that Perception is the way that our brains organize, interpret, and identify information, whereas sensation involves one or all of the five senses being activated. The reason that Oliver Sacks’ neurological disorder is interesting, however, is that the cause is not due to sensation despite the fact he is using one of his five senses in order to see the faces of others and himself, but instead, it is perception. Oliver Sacks had no issues in seeing other items as they were in the natural environment, only faces, making this disorder an issue with his ability to interpret and store the information his brain gathers when viewing faces.]

CLASSMATE 2—In the Disney movie Finding Nemo Dori a regal blue tang fish suffers from short-term memory. In the movie, Dori tries to help Nemo’s dad Marlin search for Nemo. Marlin finds it difficult to work with Dori because she often forgets what she is doing and where she is going. Dori is aware that she has a disability and explains it to Marlin. Despite her disability, she doesn’t let that stop her from helping Marlin find Nemo.