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Showing 1 to 20 of 105 for “"attentional control"”.
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Cortical and autonomic modulation of attentional control /
… the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in cognitive control has received considerable attention, much less work has been done on the role of the ACC in autonomic regulation. Its connections through the vagus nerve to the sinoatrial node of the heart are thought to exert modulatory control over …
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Top-down attentional control in affective contexts
… cognition. The present study examined top-down attentional control, one component of executive function, during three distinct affective contexts. The color-word Stroop task was used to measure top-down attentional control, and an autobiographical memory task manipulated the affective context in …
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Aerobic Fitness and Attentional Control in Preadolescent Children
… the relationship between aerobic fitness and the attentional networks was assessed in forty-six preadolescent children. Neuroelectric (P3 amplitude and latency) and behavioral (accuracy, response time [RT]) indices of cognitive performance were assessed during the Attention Network Test (ANT). …
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Training And Transfer Of Attentional Control In Older Adulthood
… For example, many studies do not include a control condition, fail to consider practice effects as an account for posttest gains in test performance, or use outcome measures that lack a validated association with the targeted intervention. This dissertation tested the transfer of cognitive …
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Aging and Attentional Control in the Stroop Priming Task
… whether older adults are capable of developing attentional strategies to reduce interference from irrelevant information. Sixty young and 60 older adults were asked to name the ink color of a non-black neutral word, which was presented adjacent to a color word or a neutral word (Lowe & Mitterer, …
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Early Attachment Stress, Attentional Control Dysfunction and Problems with Self-Regulation
… of the self-regulatory elements of executive control is one of the most critical and significant developmental achievements of early childhood. Executive control and self-regulation are constructs that lie at the nexus of developmental, neuropsychological, and clinical investigations. …
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An fMRI Analysis of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex's Involvement in Attentional Control
… cortex (ACC) play complementary roles in control. Through an analysis of practice-related effects, the present work provided support for the notion that DLPFC is involved in implementing control while ACC is involved in response-related processes. In addition, our examination of various …
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Evaluating the Effects of Mindfulness Practice on Attentional Control and Episodic Memory
… mindfulness practice may also facilitate attentional processes as practitioners are required to inhibit distracting thoughts and re-direct their focus to the present moment. My thesis examined the relationship between mindfulness practice and attentional control and potential spillovers to …
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Effect of attentional control on the relationship between worry and stress responding
… worry may be exacerbated by deficits in attentional control (Armstrong et al., 2011). Attentional control is the ability to voluntarily shift and disengage attention while utilizing cognitive resources selectively to inhibit the processing of extraneous or irrelevant stimuli (Derryberry & …
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Investigating the Effect of Attentional Control on Source Monitoring and DRM Memory Performance
… DRM paradigms have highlighted the importance of attentional control (AC), with divided attention (DA) during encoding leading to impaired source detail recollection. This thesis examined how AC affected the accuracy of source monitoring and susceptibility to false memories based on list type. …
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Inhibition, attentional control, and causes of forgetting in working memory: a formal approach
… to examine the dynamics between inhibition, attentional control, and the causes of forgetting in working memory. The study in Chapter 2 tested the performance of children, young adults, and old adults in a working-memory updating-task with two conditions: one condition included go steps and …
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Time Course of Regional Brain Activity Associated With Top-Down Attentional Control in Depression
… cortex (LDLPFC) has been implicated in cognitive control. Very few studies have investigated how this network is altered in psychopathology, despite evidence that depression and anxiety are associated with cognitive control impairments. In the present studies, participants with a history of …
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Differentiating Externalizing Behaviors in Early Childhood: The Role of Negative Affectivity and Attentional Control
… a reactive propensity for anger and frustration. Attentional control can act to regulate these behaviors through shifting and focusing of attention, but may execute this regulation differently based on the situational context. The role of contextual attentional control in predicting two distinct …
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The Impact of Brief Mindfulness Interventions on Attentional Control in Anxious Undergraduates: A Randomized Controlled Study
… in its anxiolytic effects. In the current study, attentional control was examined as a possible mechanism of change, as it is largely deficient in individuals with anxiety yet necessary for extinction learning in treatment. In theory, mindfulness interventions can facilitate increased attentional …
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Biased Attentional Processing for Negative Emotion and Youth Internalizing Psychopathology: The Role of Attentional Control Deficits
… biases in bottom-up, stimulus-driven attentional systems, as well as top-down, goal-oriented attentional systems, in the context of negative emotion. However, the underlying cognitive mechanisms that drive these biases, such as attentional control deficits, are not well understood. …
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Your Attention Please: Neural Networks, Individual Differences, and Clinical Implications of Attentional Control in the Human Brain
Our brains ability to direct our attention requires paradoxical processing. We must be able to focus and maintain our attention without allowing external stimuli to lure us off task. Yet, we must also be able to shift our attention flexibly to switch tasks in response to relevant cues. Unitary …
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Attentional Control in Young Drivers: Does Training Help or Hinder Bottom-Up Processing in a Dynamic Driving Environment?
… protecting them from the adverse effect of attentional capture by stimulus movements that coexist with latent road hazards.</p>
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Shyness and Internalizing Problems in Middle Childhood: The Moderating Role of Attentional Control, Inhibitory Control, and Frontal EEG Asymmetry
… the lab at 6 and 9 years of age. Shyness, attentional control (AC), inhibitory control (IC), frontal electroencephalogram (EEG) asymmetry were measured at both 6 and 9 years using age appropriate questionnaires and tasks. Results indicated that age 6 shyness did not directly predict age 9 …
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Combining Attentional Control and Semantic Memory Retrieval: A Sensitive Marker for Early Stage AD and AD-related Biomarkers in Healthy Older Adults
Past studies have shown that measures of attentional control and semantic memory retrieval are sensitive markers of Alzheimer disease: AD). The present study examined the utility of combining measures of attentional control and semantic retrieval within a single task to discriminate healthy aging …
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