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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Attentional Control Theory"”.
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N-back Performance with Trauma-Relevant Visual Distractors: Associations with Posttraumatic Stress Symptomatology
… apart the relative effects of PTSD and mTBI. The attentional control theory proposes misallocations of attentional resources are responsible for cognitive alterations among individuals with anxiety-related disorders. Elevated anxiety may lead to perceptual engagement with task-irrelevant threat, …
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COMPETING FOR RESOURCES: WORKING MEMORY AND PERFORMANCE ANXIETY IN U.S. PIANO STUDENTS
… (MPA) in university piano students, after controlling for general psychopathology. Working memory is central to musical performance, and Attentional Control Theory (Eysenck et al., 2007) predicts that anxiety disrupts working memory by consuming executive attentional resources, yet no prior …
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An Empirical Exploration of Countermeasures in HCI-Based Deception Research
… and analyzing this literature, Signal Detection Theory (SDT) was leveraged to generate an enhanced and extended theory-based framework for countermeasures. Third, an experiment was designed and conducted to explore the implications of this theory-based framework in the context of an HCI-based …
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The relationship between anxiety, working memory and academic performance among secondary school pupils with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties: a test of Processing Efficiency Theory
… academic performance. The Processing Efficiency Theory (PET) and<br/>the more recent Attentional Control Theory (ACT) have been put forward to explain the relationship between anxiety and performance. The theories assume that worry (the cognitive component of anxiety) is thought to have a …