News tagged with selective attention
Researchers study attention mechanisms of autistic children
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical relationships between movement ...
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Selective attention increases both gain and feature selectivity of the human auditory cortex
Sep 19, 2007 |
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On Sept. 19, a research report by Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computational Engineering scientists will appear in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, showing that selective attention increases both ...
Remembering what to remember and what to forget
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 25, 2009 |
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People in very early stages of Alzheimer's disease already have trouble focusing on what is important to remember, a UCLA psychologist and colleagues report.
Improving impaired attention may help patients recover from stroke
Jul 23, 2009 |
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It may be possible to improve impaired attention after stroke -- which could aid recovery -- according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Measuring the auditory dynamics of selective attention
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Aug 22, 2008 |
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Call it the cocktail party effect: how an individual can participate in a one-on-one conversation within a cluster of people, switch to another, pick up important comments while tuning out others, change topics and return ...
Shift workers most impaired on first night shift following day shifts
Nov 28, 2007 |
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School affiliate Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) have found that the attention of shift workers is most impaired on the first night shift following a string of day shifts. This research appears ...
Visual system that detects movement, colours and textures created in Granada
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Mimicking the way in which a retina works is a hard as it sounds. Scientists from Stanford University, in the United States, have spent the past two years working on imitating the way in which information is processed in ...
Do doodle: Research shows doodling can help memory recall
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 27, 2009 |
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Doodling while listening can help with remembering details, rather than implying that the mind is wandering as is the common perception. According to a study published today in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, subjec ...
Neuronal correlates of the set-size effect in monkey lateral intraparietal area
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Jul 01, 2008 |
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It is well known that the brain is limited in the amount of sensory information it can process at any given time. During an everyday task such as finding an object in a cluttered environment (known as visual search), observers ...
Humans and chimps register faces by using similar brain regions
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Dec 18, 2008 |
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Chimpanzees recognize their pals by using some of the same brain regions that switch on when humans register a familiar face, according to a report published online on December 18th in Current Biology, a Cell ...
Sociologist: Tiger Woods' Example Neither Reflects Nor Threatens the Image of Marriage
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Dec 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University at Buffalo sociologist Sampson Blair says Tiger Woods' alleged rampant infidelities don't affect the status of marriage and the family because his lifestyle and wealth are regarded by most Americans ...
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