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Focus of Attention in Groups: A Self-Attention Perspective

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1989
In three studies, we examined the hypothesis, derived from self-attention theory, that the focus of attention of individuals in groups varies as a function of group composition. In naturally occurring, nonlaboratory settings, Studies 1 and 2 demonstrated a decrease in first-person singular pronoun usage as the proportionate number of discussants in a ...
B, Mullen, J G, Chapman, S, Peaugh
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Focus of your attention

Early Years Educator, 2016
Holding quality conversations in a busy setting environment is a big challenge. Here, Michael Jones explores practical ways that practitioners can involve young children in sustained shared thinking.
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Attentional Focus of Sport Spectators

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1998
To test the hypothesis that a player possessing the ball, i.e., the actor, is the most salient component of a football scenario and that, consequently, spectators tend to focus their attention on this person, subjects were asked to view a series of short video clips depicting college football plays.
Daniel L. Wann, Nathan L. Steele
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Attentional awakening, resource allocation and the focus of temporal attention

NeuroReport, 2011
Attentional awakening (AA) is an impairment in the identification of target stimuli that are presented early in a rapidly presented sequence of visual stimuli. Here we investigate whether AA is related to resource allocation, measured as amplitude of the P3 event-related potential and/or variance in the focus of temporal attention, measured as P3 phase
Cornelia, Kranczioch, Dale, Bryant
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Attention has memory: priming for the size of the attentional focus

Spatial Vision, 2009
Repeating the same target's features or spatial position, as well as repeating the same context (e.g. distractor sets) in visual search leads to a decrease of reaction times. This modulation can occur on a trial by trial basis (the previous trial primes the following one), but can also occur across multiple trials (i.e. performance in the current trial
FUGGETTA G, LANFRANCHI, SILVIA, CAMPANA, GIANLUCA   +2 more
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Focus-of-attention from local color symmetries

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2004
In this paper, a continuous valued measure for local color symmetry is introduced. The new algorithm is an extension of the successful gray value-based symmetry map proposed by Reisfeld et al. The use of color facilitates the detection of focus points (FPs) on objects that are difficult to detect using gray-value contrast only.
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Influence of Attentional Focus on Reaction Time

Psychological Reports, 1985
It was hypothesized that attention could be directed to the emphasized task regardless of its spatial location. 20 subjects performed a simple RT to a stimulus located in foveal vision and a simple RT to four surrounding stimuli set in the visual periphery. Importance of task was manipulated through instructions.
D M, Furst, G, Tenenbaum
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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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