Browsing by Subject "Attention"
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(Vanderbilt University, 2011-04)Although an attentional bias for threat-relevant information has been connected to the etiology of contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), the treatment implications of such a bias remains unclear. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2009)Controversy exists concerning whether emotionally valenced information facilitates or inhibits orientation of spatial attention when presented without observers' awareness. Following prior work by Jiang et al., (2006) ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2010-04)The Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm reveals a significant relationship between emotion and attention. In the current study, we tested the effects of a forward and backward Emotional Blink of Attention (EBA) on ...
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(2006-04-12)Department: PsychologyThe oculomotor readiness premotor theory of attention states that shifting visual attention corresponds to preparing a saccade. Contributing to both saccade production and the allocation of visual attention, the frontal ...
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(2010-02-22)Department: PsychologyWe are only able to maintain a limited number of objects in working memory and can only attend to a limited number of perceptual representations. Do these limits stem from a single, undifferentiated source of capacity, ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2012-03)To investigate attentional biases in drug addiction, the Emotional Blink of Attention paradigm was used to study opioid-dependent patients undergoing inpatient withdrawal treatment at the Vanderbilt Psychiatric Hospital. ...
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(2009-04-02)Department: PsychologyThough it is a common occurrence during activities such as team sports to have to attend to multiple objects at once, we are only able to direct gaze to one location at a time. Where will gaze be directed when there are ...
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(2017-06-12)Department: PsychologyPsychopathy is a pervasive and persistent personality disorder comprised of combination of a broad range of personality traits. These traits include low fear, diminished empathy, and a propensity to be manipulative, mixed ...
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(2004-04-08)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe sensory abilities of humanoid robots are progressing every year with the development of advanced and complex sensors. At the same time, humanoid robots are learning to coordinate sensory events in their environments ...
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(2020-08-18)Department: NeuroscienceTo best understand the biological underpinnings of psychological phenomena, one must understand two distinct but related dimensions: (1) the response properties of the underlying neurons and (2) the underlying cognitive ...
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(2009-04-09)Department: Electrical EngineeringA multimodal attentional system for a robot operating in a dynamic environment is described. The system at once enables a robot (a) to maintain a Focus of Attention (FOA) on the region of space most important to its current ...
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(2013-04-06)Department: PsychologyThis dissertation was designed to assess the relationship between perceptual selection and working memory maintenance. Two models of working memory assert that we use attentional selection to determine what information ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2014-04)Within a variety of stimuli, we selectively attend to the most emotionally relevant, often at a cost to the processing of the other stimuli. The emotional attentional blink (EAB) is an effect in which emotional distractor ...
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(2010-05-10)Department: PsychologyAre the same object representations used in visual attention and visual memory? This dissertation summarizes three projects that have examined different aspects of this question. First, dual-task methods were used to ...
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(2006-07-31)Department: PsychologySeveral recent papers state that working memory's contents cause attention to automatically deploy to matching objects in a display. Results of eight experiments reported here are inconsistent with this claim. In the ...