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Showing 1 to 20 of 19293 for “"Attention"”.
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An Investigation of Visual Attention in Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
What is known as Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) today has been known by other titles in the past such as minimal brain dysfunction and Hyperkinetic Reaction of Childhood. These label changes represented the change in knowledge and understanding of the disorder over time. Today, it …
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Making with attention
My sculpture examines relationships between human and environment, object and intention. By creating a sense of the art object as a modern artifact, I challenge modes of making and living in contemporary western society through the guise of utilitarian objects. By using materials that have been …
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Exploring Play Attention
<p>The present study examined the Play Attention neurofeedback computer program to determine its efficacy in the classroom. A program that would increase students' ability to pay better attention in the classroom would vastly improve our entire educational system. The two areas that were used to …
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Neurology of Attention: Interhemispheric Processing Modulates Attention in the Stroop Task
… helps modulate processing during increased attentional demand. The data suggest that interhemispheric processing (1) is not a static, but instead varies with task demands, (2) produces non-random responses to attentional demands, and (3) is a unique form of neural processing not necessarily …
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The visual attention battery: Predicting flight performance with visual attention tasks
The study investigated differences in attentional abilities between student and instructor pilots. Twenty-four student and thirty-one instructor pilots were administered a battery of attention tasks in an effort to determine whether attentional abilities would covary with the level of piloting …
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The metacognition of attention: Using self-scheduled breaks to improve sustained attention
The student, Trisha Patel, accepted the attached license on 2020-12-14 at 16:25.
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AWE: Attention Word Embedding
… We tackle this inefficiency by introducing the Attention Word Embedding (AWE) model, which integrates the attention mechanism into the CBOW model. We also propose AWE-S, which incorporates subword information. We demonstrate that AWE and AWE-S outperform the state-of-the-art word embedding …
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Essays on Investor Attention
… investigates retail and institutional investor attention and their effects on the dynamics of asset pricing. First, it examines the attention implications on the liquidity of cross section of stocks, as well as seasonal patterns of investor attention. It documents that increased attention leads …
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INVESTOR ATTENTION AND SENTIMENT
Investor sentiment and attention are often linked to the same non-economic events making it difficult to understand why and how asset prices are affected. This thesis disentangles these two potential drivers of market behaviour by studying how investors react to sports outcomes, weather conditions …
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Essays on Investor Attention
… consists of three chapters that examine investor attention and its impact on corporate events and asset prices using a Google search-based measure of investor attention.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 1 </strong>This chapter investigates investor attention patterns and its determinants. I document that …
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Attention and Motor Skills
… was initially made to define the concept of attention and what it meant to state that someone was attending in any particular situation. It was suggested, as a result of the conceptual analysis, that a common mistake had been made in research to date viz., that of believing that one is …
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Visual routines and attention
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Long-Term Memory Biases Auditory Spatial Attention: Healthy and Impaired “Memory-Guided Attention”
Attention and memory may be impaired in individuals at-risk for Alzheimer’s disease (AD), though standard cognitive assessments typically study the two in parallel. In reality, attention and memory interact to facilitate processing, and thus a more integrative approach is required. Here, I used a …
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Executive Attention, Action Selection and Attention-Based Learning in Neurally Controlled Autonomous Agents
… neural architecture, modelled on human executive attention, which is used to control both automatic (reactive) and willed action selection in a simulated robot. The model, based upon Norman and Shallice's supervisory attention system, incorporates important features of human attentional control: …
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Paying attention to what's important : using focus of attention to improve unsupervised learning
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 1994.
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Identifying Attention Commonalities and Differences Between Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Autism Spectrum Disorder
… examined one of Posner and Petersen’s (1990) attention networks (i.e., orienting – the ability to selectively focus on pertinent information) in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as compared to Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). The orienting processes of …
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Selective Attention and Childhood Anxiety: The Associations Among Attention, Memory, Interpretive Biases and Anxiety
This paper examined the links between selective attention, memory bias, interpretive bias, and anxiety problems in a community sample of 81 children (38 females) aged 9-17 years. Cognitive biases were assessed using a word and picture Dot Probe Discrimination task to assess selective attention, a …
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Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA) Utility in Differentiating Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Subtypes
… Performance Tests (CPTs) can differentiate Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity (ADHD) subjects from controls without any psychiatric illness. However, CPTs have neither accurately differentiated ADHD children from those with other psychiatric disorders—nor differentiated subtypes of ADHD from …
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Stress, attention and sports injury
… of stress and psychosocial factors on visual attention. Twenty physical education students (10 male, 10 female) performed central and peripheral visual attention tasks under four stress conditions in a Latin Square design. Prior to performing the task, participants completed the ALES, Athletic …
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