Supplementary materials:

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Session 13

• Bruya, B., ed. (2010). Effortless attention (a collection of essays on skilled action, flow and top-down control).

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Session 12

• Fisher, Kane, Pereboom & Vargas (2007). Four Views of Free Will.

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Session 11

• Lucas Battich's Ph.D. dissertation, The Nature of Joint Attention: Perception and Other Minds.

• Friedenberg & Silverman (2016), Ch. 11: "The social approach: Mind as society" (joint attention is discussed in pp.12-14 of the pdf, but the whole chapter is interesting).

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Session 10

• Inattentional blindness demo

• Change blindness demo

• Iconic memory demos:

      - Easy

      - Hard

• Illustration of high & low frequency filters 

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Session 7

• Moral Machine (participate in a trolley dilemma online experiment)

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    Studies on moral pop-out and binocular rivalry:

• Anderson et al (2011). "The visual impact of gossip"

• Gantman & Van Bavel (2014). "The moral pop-out effect"

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   Studies on eye-tracking and moral dilemmas:

• Decety, J., et al (2012). "The contribution of emotion and cognition to moral sensitivity"

• Garon et al (2018). "Visual encoding of social cues predicts sociomoral reasoning"

• Garon et al (2018). "Visual encoding of social cues contributes to moral reasoning in Autism Spectrum Disorder"

• Kastner, R. (2011). "Moral judgments and visual attention"

• Skulmowski, A., et al (2014). "Forced-choice decision-making in modified trolley dilemma situations"

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    Studies on cheating and generosity:​

• Hochman et al (2016). "Biased processing and increased arousal in dishonest responses."

• Rahal et al (2020). "Prosocial preferences condition decision effort and ingroup biased generosity in intergroup decision-making"

• Teoh et al (2020). "Attentional priorities drive effects of time pressure on altruistic choice"

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Session 4

• Project Implicit (detect your own unconscious biases)

• Siegel, S. (2017). The Rationality of Perception.

• Sripada, C. (2018). "An exploration/exploitation trade-off between mind- wandering and goal-directed thinking."

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Sessions 1-3

• Mole, C. & Henry, A.  (2017), “What is attention? Adverbialist theories” 

• Reynolds, J.H. & Heeger, D.J. (2009). “The normalization model of attention.”

• Watzl, S. (2011), “Attention as structuring the stream of consciousness”

• Wu, W. (2011). “Attention as selection for action”

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Warm-up readings

   Why should you care about attention?

• Sebastian Watzl, “Who needs a theory of attention?”

• Clinton Castro & Adam Pham, “Is the economy of attention noxious?”

• C. O. Evans, “Free will and attention”

• Dan Goleman, “Attention regulates emotion: Focus and self control”

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   The philosophical landscape:

• Attention (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)

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   The science of attention:

• Grace W. Lindsay, “Attention in psychology, neuroscience and machine learning.”

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