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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Capturing Attention"”.
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A Place of Pause, Architecture that can De-Stress
… at how to divert individuals/ capture their attention for an extended period but also at providing comfort and a place where one can rest. The project also deals with human perception- When an architectural project heightens a user's visual, auditory, tactile, or olfactory senses, the user is …
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A Cognitive-Motivational Approach to Understanding Gendered Sexual Response: the Role of Attentional Mechanisms
… My program of research seeks to understand the attentional processes involved in processing sexual cues, with a specific focus on elucidating cognitive-motivational factors contributing to the gender effects observed in sexual response patterns. Informed by cognitive-motivational models of …
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Improving visibility of latent stains on dark fabric: dark adaptation and stroboscopic light sources
… Light™. It is known from studies on human attention that flickering stimuli are very effective at capturing attention. Any material fluorescing in response to a strobing ALS would look to the examiner to be suddenly appearing and disappearing as a series of sudden onset stimuli, potentially …
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On the flexible nature of the relationship between attention and active memory representations
… how active memory representations interact with attention remains highly contentious. One of the primary reasons for this continued debate has been a reliance on artificially dichotomizing the roles these systems play and ignoring the role of task demands which include differences in factors such …
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How Learning and Motivational Shifts Determine the Incentive Salience of Reward Cues: a Human Behavioral Perspective
… reward cues with the capacity to attract attention, also in contexts where pursuing the reward is not relevant. I will first examine the unresolved debate concerning the learning parameters that define the cue-reward association and eventually modulate attention. Specifically, whether the …
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Mass transport in polymers
… Perfluorosulphonic acid ionomers (PFSI) are capturing attention due to a high thermal and chemical resistance coupled with very peculiar transport properties, that make them appropriate to be used in fuel cells. The possible effect of different formation procedure was studied together with …
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Clarifying the role of attention on Own Gender Bias in face recognition
… studies on Own Gender Bias emphasise the role of attention; however two studies (Loven, Herlitz, & Rehnman, 2011; Palmer, Brewer, & Horry, 2013) which have directly investigated its role provide inconsistent results. The role of attention has been further highlighted by Hugenberg and colleagues …