Comparing The Sherlock Holmes Scene, Dinner With Mary Morstan And Watson
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The Sherlock Holmes scene, “Dinner with Mary Morstan and Watson” contains psychological evidence that aids in explaining character personality and how they interact to evolve the movie storyline. We can use cognitive psychology to interpret the characters actions and thought processes. At the beginning of the scene Sherlock is looking around noticing every single action that is taking place in the restaurant while still keeping time on his stop watch. Sherlock is using his executive attention. According to Cognitive Psychology Mind and Brain, executive attention directs subsequent processing and is needed when multiple representation in working memory or representations compete for the control of the cognition and behavior. Before Sherlock’s…show more content… As they capture his attention the photoreceptors located in the retina and answer to the ganglia cells. Afterwards, axons on the ganglia exit each eye on to optic nerve while crossing over the optic chiasm. The image is registered and the axon synapses send signals to the Primary visual cortex. (Chapter 2 Lecture- Perception) Its quite astounding that the simple act of looking at an image involves and dictates several brain processes to initiate and act together every time we need to see an object. Still how does that work? What if he had Brain damage that happened to effect attention does that mean eyesight is affected too? The answer is absolutely. Sherlock was exhibiting object-based attention. “Recent studies of object based attention show that when attentions is directed toward an object, all the parts of that object are simultaneously selected for processing” (Smith, E., & Kosslyn, S.,2008, pg 123) Although Sherlock focused on the different sounds a certain object made, when looking at the object making the sound, he was still directed to look at the bigger picture. Even though sound and object may be chunked together because they are held in the same space and by the same object, if Sherlock was unable to perceive both the brain conditioned that would be diagnosed as