Browsing by Subject "attention"
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(2018-04-18)Department: NeuroscienceA significant body of research has indicated that acuity of the neurocognitive system used to represent numerical magnitudes, often referred to as the approximate number system (ANS), serves a foundational role in the ...
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(2019-05-08)Department: PsychologyDespite surgical palliation, children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) have compromised cardiac functioning and increased risk for cognitive deficits. Yet, little is known about detailed profiles of cognitive ...
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(2016-06-29)Department: PsychologySensory input from the social world is often bustling and chaotic, and yet human beings typically comprehend events with ease. Evidence suggests that the perceptual system uses social cues to guide awareness to relevant ...
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(2011-12-10)Department: Hearing and Speech SciencesFor this dissertation, primary aims included investigating the effects of musical training on attention, working memory, and auditory stream segregation as they relate to music perception and speech understanding in noise. ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-11-16)In this episode, we talk with James M. Lang about distraction and attention, the subject of his new book. He is a professor of English and the director of the D’Amour Center for Teaching Excellence at Assumption University ...
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(2011-07-20)Department: PsychologyRecent work on the control of attention has focused on automatic influences of working memory representations on the guidance of attention. In this work, I present three studies questioning the auotmaticity of working ...
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(2013-04-18)Department: PsychologyIt has long been recognized that people demonstrate orienting responses to novel, salient stimuli in the environment. The presentation of such an oddball stimulus does not only induce physiological, reflexive responses, ...
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(2016-04-06)Department: PsychologyAttention and awareness are tightly coupled phenomena that describe how particular information is selected for processing and subsequently experienced. Many contemporary theories of both processes posit that there are ...
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(2009-06-18)Department: PsychologyThe present study examines the extent to which attentional biases in contamination-based obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are specific to disgust or fear cues, as well as the components of attention involved. Eye tracking ...
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(2015-04-02)Department: Special EducationFindings of recent studies suggest variations in performance across reading comprehension tests may be a product of differences among assessment dimensions (e.g., response format, genre) or child skills (e.g., Francis, ...
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(2018-08-17)Department: Interdisciplinary Studies: Human Computer InteractionAssistive technology (AT) refers to technology used to aid, increase, or improve the capabilities of people with disabilities. AT for older adults with cognitive impairments, such as Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and other ...
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(2012-03-25)Department: PsychologyTheories of attention are compatible with the idea that we can bias attention to avoid selecting objects that have known nontarget features. Although this may underlie several existing phenomena, the explicit guidance of ...
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(2010-04-12)Department: PsychologyAttentional problems are widely reported in Williams syndrome (WS), with some reports suggesting nearly 65% prevalence of ADHD. I investigated the temporal dynamics of attention in WS via an attentional blink (AB) paradigm. ...
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(2010-09-06)Department: NeuroscienceOur world constantly bombards us with more information than we can process. To ensure that we can act in accordance with our goals and relevant events, we use attention to select and enhance aspects of our environment. ...
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(2008-12-11)Department: PsychologyThe amount of information that we can extract from a visual scene and maintain in visual short-term memory (VSTM) over a short period of time is severely limited. VSTM is capacity limited in terms of the rate of consolidating ...
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(2012-04-09)Department: PsychologyObject correspondence is the process by which the visual system matches the identities of objects to their locations to form stable percepts. Object correspondence is useful when we watch a sporting event, like basketball, ...
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(2017-11-21)Department: PsychologyVisual perception arises from the combination of bottom-up (feedforward) activation and top-down (feedback) modulation of neuronal activity. Distinguishing these processes is challenging. Using multielectrode extracellular ...
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(2014-02-28)Department: SpanishThis dissertation offers a new approach to the 20th century Latin American prose writers Macedonio Fernández (Argentina, 1874-1952), Felisberto Hernández (Uruguay, 1902-1964), and Clarice Lispector (Brazil, 1920-1977). My ...
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(2010-04-10)Department: PsychologyThe emotional dot probe paradigm has been used extensively to explore attentional biases. Behavioral reaction times are the most common measurement, but have been criticized for being a rather indirect measure of attentional ...