Attention class Paying attention is a more important skill than you might...

The Boston Globe;  June 29, 2008 ;   Maggie Jackson; Maggie Jackson is the author of "Distracted: The Erosion of Attention; the Coming Dark Age; " published this month.;   787 words ......under more assault than the simple faculty of attention. We bemoan the tug of war for our focus, joke uneasily about our attention-deficit lifestyles, and worry about the seeming epidemic of attention disorders among children. The ability to pay...

The deployment of attention in short-term memory tasks: Trade-offs between...

Memory & Cognition;  June 1, 2008 ;   Bunting, Michael F; Cowan, Nelson; Colflesh, Greg H;   787 words ...Memory at times depends on attention, as when attention is used to encode incoming, serial verbal information. When encoding and rehearsal are difficult or when attention is divided during list presentation, more attention is...

Competing for attention

New Straits Times;  September 5, 2001 ;   Reviewed by Brian Cracknell;   787 words ......Straits Times 09-05-2001 Competing for attention Byline: Reviewed by Brian Cracknell Edition...Business wise Type: Book review Title: The Attention Economy Authors: Thomas H. Davenport...to customers to attract and keep their attention. Now Thomas H. Davenport and John C...

Allocation of visual attention depends on type of precue.(Statistical Data...

Genetic, Social, and General Psychology Monographs;  November 1, 2001 ;   Cheal, Marylou Chastain, Garvin;   787 words ...ATTENTION IS IMPORTANT FOR SURVIVAL in many different ways. The study of attention has been of interest to scientists since the beginning...nonhuman primates (Mirsky, 1987), as well as in humans. Attention to particular substances helps to determine diet, and...

Localization judgments under various levels of attention

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  June 1, 2005 ;   Tsal, Yehoshua; Bareket, Tal;   787 words ...We investigated the effects of attention on localization with two converging manipulations of attention. The results indicated that whereas attention improved localization, minimally attended stimuli were nonetheless localized fairly accurately...

LEADERSHIP STYLE: Thaksin grabs attention by the textbook, NATION

The Nation (Thailand);  May 12, 2003 ;   Thanong Khanthong;   613 words ......stolen the show. He has grabbed all the attention. He centralises and directs all the policies...built his leadership. Welcome to the Attention Economy! A political source attributes...s strong-arm leadership style to the Attention Economy: Understanding the New Currency...

Attention based visual processes

Canadian Psychology;  February 1, 1996 ;   Cavanagh, Patrick;   708 words ...Attention is often compared to a spotlight or focus of enhanced processing. We have found that this gain comes...judgements of positions of stimuli surrounding an attended event are distorted, repelled away from the attentional focus. But there is more to attention than just selection. Our work shows that ...

Self-estimates of attention performance

Psychology Science;  January 1, 2007 ;   Mengelkamp, Christoph; Jäger, Reinhold S;   787 words ......findings are true for self-estimation of attention, too. A sample of 100 female and 34 male...students were asked to fill in the test of attention d2. After taking the test, the students...stereotypes. Key words: concentration, attention, gender, stereotypes, self-estimation...

HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY MODELS OF ATTENTION PROCESSES WITH...

Education;  December 22, 1998 ;   DYKEMAN, BRUCE F.;   787 words ...A brief historical review of research into attention and attention processes along with a description of current models...people visually perceive stimuli. Components of attention are identified along with implications for learning...

An Overview of Attention: Behavior and Brain

Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy;  September 1, 2007 ;   McDowd, Joan M;   787 words ......of this review is to provide an overview of attention as it has been studied in the field of psychology...theory are highlighted, focusing on concepts of attentional resources and attentional effort. In addition, a functional approach to...

Attention! Brain splits the difference

Charleston Gazette;  March 30, 2007 ;   Lauran Neergaard;   646 words ......different part of your brain will yell "pay attention" than if you were studying bears at...scientists develop better treatments for attention deficit disorder. "This ability to willfully focus your attention is physically separate in the brain...

The nature of attentional differences between groups of children...

British Journal of Psychology;  May 1, 2001 ;   Wilding, John Munir, Fehmidah Cornish, Kim;   787 words ......Two groups of children, one with good attention and low hyperactivity and the other with poor attention and high hyperactivity, were formed...tested on a large number of tests of attentional performance, covering selective attention...

Working memory and the guidance of visual attention: Consonance-driven...

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review;  February 1, 2007 ;   Huang, Liqiang; Pashler, Harold;   787 words ......content of working memory in guiding visual attention. Experiment 1 showed that maintaining...resulted in a decisive preference for moving attention to the same shape in the background when...automatically results in a tendency for attention to be "attracted" to stimuli that are...

Eight in 10 Say Leaders Pay Too Little Attention to Veterans; Liberals,...

Gallup Poll News Service;  April 25, 2007 ;   Jones, Jeffrey M.;   787 words ......to believe military veterans get less attention from political leaders than they should...executives receive too much government attention. Senior citizens, the poor, and small-busine...being somewhat deprived of government attention. Americans' views vary by ideology for...

The role of selective attention in visual awareness of stimulus features:...

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience;  June 1, 2008 ;   Koivisto, Mika; Revonsuo, Antti;   787 words ...Attention and awareness are closely related, but the nature of...features. Selection negativity (SN), a correlate of attentional selection, emerged in response to both masked and unmasked...electrophysiological processes associated with feature-based attentional selection and visual awareness of features ...