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Focus of attention during motor skill performance

Journal of Sports Sciences, 1994
The effect of strategy instruction on response time in a sequential keypressing task was compared during acquisition and retention. Specifically, this study determined the influence of: (1) an awareness strategy, (2) a non-awareness strategy, (3) a Five-Step Approach strategy and (4) a control condition. Sixty-four subjects completed 250 trials of nine
R N, Singer, R, Lidor, J H, Cauraugh
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Focus of attention and automaticity in handwriting

Human Movement Science, 2014
This study investigated the nature of automaticity in everyday tasks by testing handwriting performance under single and dual-task conditions. Item familiarity and hand dominance were also manipulated to understand both cognitive and motor components of the task.
MacMahon, Clare, Charness, Neil
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Focus of attention and speech motor performance

Journal of Communication Disorders, 2013
The aim of the present study was to examine the effect of an internal vs. external 'focus of attention' on speech motor performance in healthy young adults.Twenty adults (aged 18-25) participated in a within-subjects experimental design. Nonwords, real words, and tongue twisters were produced by each participant in both attentional focus conditions ...
Amanda L, Lisman, Neeraja, Sadagopan
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Attention: The Focus of Consciousness

2016
A resident physician finishes his last night shift at the end of a week of night calls. It is 5:00 a.m. and the last few hours have been particularly straining because of several unstable patients. The resident is very tired but conscientiously decides to do rounds on his patients one more time before getting some rest. While evaluating a patient whose
Michael St.Pierre, Gesine Hofinger, Robert Simon   +2 more
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Internal focus as a subset of attention

Neuropsychologia, 1972
Abstract This report attempts to marshall more evidence on internal focus of attention in humans. The theoretical model used capitalizes on changes in EEG states as the dependent variable and a verbal command of the experimenter to start alpha generation as the independent variable, in order to predict internal focus of attention.
F J, Bremner, F J, Moritz
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Focus of Attention

2022
Marco Gori, Alessandro Betti, Stefano Melacci   +2 more
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Focus of Attention and Altruism

1984
In recent years several attempts have been made to describe motivational mechanisms underlying altruistic behavior and various mechanisms have been proposed (see Karylowski, 1977, 1982a, for a review). There now seems to be an emerging consensus that altruism is a polimotivated phenomenon and that one-factor theories are insufficient (cf. Bar-Tal, 1976;
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Global Dominance outside the Focus of Attention

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 1999
Identification of the local aspect of a relevant compound stimulus has been found to be delayed by the presence of target-set members at the global aspect of an irrelevant compound stimulus, whereas identification of the global aspect is unaffected by the presence of local target-set members within the irrelevant object (Paquet & Merikle, 1988 ...
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Focus of Therapists’ Attention

2019
Marilyn Stickle, Margaret Arnd-Caddigan
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Joint Focus of Attention

2011
Loretta C. Rudd, Leah E. Johnson
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