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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Focused Attention"”.
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Culture and Somatic Focused Attention
… and American university students in somatic-focused attention were explored. Study 1 showed that Ghanaian participants paid more attention to their body and less to emotions than did American participants. However, these differences were not explained by differences in …
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The effects of focused attention on batting performance of collegiate athletes.
… study is important in discovering the impacts of focused attention instructions on the performance of collegiate level players.
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The impact of focused attention on emotional evaluation: An eye-tracking investigation
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-12-01
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Immediate and long-term effects of emotion regulation: an eye-tracking investigation of focused attention on emotional experience and memory
Emotional stimuli tend to capture attention and this may lead to an immediate increase in our subjective emotional experience, as well as to longer-term enhancing effects on our memory for emotional stimuli. In extreme circumstances, increased emotional reactivity to negative stimuli may become …
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Asymmetry in hemi-attention and auditory-linguistic processing as measured by focused-attention dichotic listening: a comparison of reading- disabled and non-disabled children
The focused-attention dichotic listening technique was used to investigate auditory-linguistic and hemi-attentional asymmetries in reading-disabled (RD) and non reading-disabled (nonRD) children. Subjects were defined as RD according to a statistical formula which determined whether IQ and reading …
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The Impact of a Single Session of Mindfulness Meditation on the Attentional Blink in Non-Meditators
<p>Attentional resources are limited therefore a stimulus can go undetected if it closely follows another target by 200-500ms. This phenomenon is known as the attentional blink. Mindfulness meditation has been shown to be beneficial in target detection and in decreasing the attentional blink. Since …
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Effects of noise and workload on performance with two object displays vs. a separated display
… across the two dimensions of each display or focused attention on each dimension, in a simulated airborne decision task. In Experiment 1 (14 subjects), stress was imposed via three levels of workload of a concurrent visual search task. In Experiment 2 (14 subjects), it was imposed by 88 dB …
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Attention Style and Appreciation: The Differences between Gratitude and Indebtedness
… is hypothesized by this thesis that self-focused attention affects feelings of gratitude and indebtedness. Focusing less attention on the self, thus turning attention resources outward, may allow for the experience of gratitude, whereas focusing inward may create feelings of indebtedness. …
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Internal and External Attentional Biases in Social Anxiety: The Effect of Effortful Control
… proposed to play a role in social anxiety: self-focused attention and threat perception bias. Mansell, Clark, and Ehlers (2003) devised a novel dot-probe paradigm to simultaneously measure on-line attention to internal and external events among socially anxious adults. Their results indicated …
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Regulatory and Financial Aspects of the Utility Industry Rate Treatment of Construction Work in Progress
Growth in utility construction programs has focused attention on the methods used by utilities to obtain the earnings needed to pay investors for the use of funds for construction expenditures.
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Lokalisation sukzessiv präsentierter Reize : Interaktion räumlicher Aufmerksamkeit und lokaler Verarbeitungsmechanismen
… and spatial activation dynamic it refers to attentional elements. Moreover, previous studies yielded evidence that the precision, with which stimuli are localized in the visual periphery, is improved under conditions of focused attention. Therefore, four further experiments examine whether …
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Differential Effects of Divided Attention on Object Representations
… after two stages: a pre-attentive stage and a focused attention stage. It is during the focused attention stage that a representation of the perceived object is formed. Theories such as Object File Theory account for the maintenance of these object representations following their creation. …
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THE INTERACTION OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FOCUS IN SOCIAL ANXIETY: CLARIFYING COGNITIVE BEHAVIORAL MODELS
… & Wells, 1995; Rapee & Heimberg, 1997) indicate attentional bias as a process fundamental to the maintenance of the disorder. They differ, however, on their conceptualization of this process. Clark and Wells suggest that socially anxious persons look only to themselves, their thoughts, and their …
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Disentangling the neural correlates of attention decrement: from Cognitive Neuroscience to Cognitive Engineering
Focused attention represents a high-level cognitive function enabling humans to selectively facilitate specific actions and perceptions. In a world full of choices of action, and of perceptual possibilities, focused attention appears to be a vital component of human cognition. One observation …
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Successful Leadership of Small Catholic Elementary Schools
… small Catholic elementary school leaders, with focused attention on operational vitality. It is a phenomenological, qualitative research study accomplished through interviews of Catholic school principals whose schools have seen success during their period of leadership.
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The Relationship Between Color and Inattentional Blindness for Military Target Detection
… them, they won't perceive it. This is known as inattentional blindness (Mack & Rock, 1998). Sometimes information missed due to inattentional blindness is trivial but inattentional blindness can become a problem when it hinders people from responding to something appropriately when a response is …
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Variabilität thalamischer und kortikaler Hochfrequenz (600 Hz) somatosensibel evozierter Potentiale durch Modulation des Aktivierungszustandes bei fokussierter Aufmerksamkeit
… is involved in regulating both, selective attention and arousal, the present study aimed at characterizing the effects of focused attention and slight arousal changes on the 600-Hz oscillations. A dipole-source analysis of 64-channel SEP recordings after electric right-median-nerve …
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Visual attention shifting in autism spectrum disorder
… disorders (ASD). Abnormalities in visual attention are particularly notable in ASD and have the potential to inform an understanding of the aberrant neural networks underlying this disorder. The current study utilized a model integrating components of both a two-stage model of perceptual …
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The Relationship of Attention and Semantic Priming: Semantic Priming Is Conditionally Automatic
This dissertation examines the relationship of attention and semantic priming. A debate exists in the semantic priming literature over whether automatic semantic priming does or does not require attention. This debate is limited by the view that automatic processes necessarily exclude the …
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A Study of Personnel Practices Related to Teacher Aide Programs
… aides. The increasing use of teacher aides has focused attention on a need for an organized program related to the problem. This study investigated programs which proposed guidelines administrators and teachers could use in the selection, training, supervision, and evaluation of teacher …
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