Can I Have Your Attention? Implications of the Research on Distractions and Multitasking for Reference Librarians [PDF]
, 2014 The media have identified the last decade as “the age of distraction.” People today find it harder to work on long, sustained tasks because distractions are eroding their attention span, fostering a culture of discontinuity.
Dewan, Pauline
core +3 more sources
Markers of cognitive function in individuals with metabolic disease: Morquio Syndrome and Tyrosinemia Type III [PDF]
, 2018 We characterized cognitive function in two metabolic diseases. MPS–IVa (mucopolysaccharidosis IVa, Morquio) and tyrosinemia type III individuals were assessed using tasks of attention, language and oculomotor function.
Blundell, James +8 more
core +3 more sources
Sustained-Paced Finger Tapping: A Novel Approach to Measure Internal Sustained Attention
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Sustained attention is a fundamental prerequisite for all cognitive functions and its impairment is a common aftermath of both developmental and acquired neurological disorders.
Marco A. Petilli +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Analysis of propagation of multi-channel EEG in the test of sustained attention [PDF]
, 2010 Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference, 2010, p. 1666-1669the psychological construct 'sustained attention' describes a basic component of attention characterized by the subject's readiness to detect rarely and ...
Jiao, Y +5 more
core +1 more source
Sustained wakefulness and visual attention: moderation by chronotype [PDF]
, 2016 Introduction - Attentional networks are sensitive to sleep deprivation and increased time awake. However, existing evidence is inconsistent and may be accounted for by differences in chronotype or time-of-day.
Barclay, Nicola, Myachykov, Andriy
core +1 more source
Sustained attention training reduces spatial bias in Parkinson’s disease: a pilot case series [PDF]
, 2015 Individuals with Parkinson’s disease (PD) commonly demonstrate lateralized spatial biases, which affect daily functioning. Those with PD with initial motor symptoms on the left body side (LPD) have reduced leftward attention, whereas PD with initial ...
Cronin-Golomb, Alice +5 more
core +1 more source
SUSTAINED ATTENTION IN HYPERACTIVE CHILDREN*
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1973 SUMMARY The ability of hyperactive children to maintain attention on three tasks was examined. One of the tasks, a Choice Reaction Time Task, measured attention for brief periods, while the other two measured sustained attention. Of the latter two, one was an experimenter‐paced task (the Continuous Performance Test) and the other a ...
D H, Sykes, V I, Douglas, G, Morgenstern
openaire +3 more sources
Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, 2011 Introduction: Cognitive tasks are considered to be applicable and appropriate in assessing cognitive domains. The purpose of our study is to determine the relationship existence between variables of age, sex and education with selective, sustained ...
Afsaneh Zarghi +9 more
doaj +2 more sources
Familial influences on sustained attention and inhibition in preschoolers [PDF]
, 2004 Background: In this study several aspects of attention were studied in 237 nearly 6-year-old twin pairs. Specifically, the ability to sustain attention and inhibition were investigated using a computerized test battery (Amsterdam Neuropsychological Tasks)
Boomsma D.I. +15 more
core +2 more sources
Socioeconomic status and neural processing of a go/no-go task in preschoolers: an assessment of the P3b [PDF]
, 2019 While it is well established that lower socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with poorer executive functioning (EF), how SES relates to the neural processing of EF in childhood remains largely unexplored.
Finch, Kayla +2 more
core +1 more source