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
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Sustained Attention Ability Affects Simple Picture Naming
Collabra: Psychology, 2017 Sustained attention has previously been shown as a requirement for language production. However, this is mostly evident for difficult conditions, such as a dual-task situation.
Suzanne R. Jongman
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Stroboscopic vision and sustained attention during coincidence-anticipation [PDF]
, 2017 We compared coincidence-anticipation performance in normal vision and stroboscopic vision as a function of time-on-task. Participants estimated the arrival time of a real object that moved with constant acceleration (-0.7, 0, +0.7 m/s2) in a pseudo ...
Ballester, R +3 more
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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
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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
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Kinesthesia in a sustained-attention driving task [PDF]
, 2014 This study investigated the effects of kinesthetic stimuli on brain activities during a sustained-attention task in an immersive driving simulator. Tonic and phasic brain responses on multiple timescales were analyzed using time-frequency analysis of ...
Chuang, CH, Jung, TP, Ko, LW, Lin, CT
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Sustained Attention and Behavioral Ratings of Attention in Struggling Readers
Scientific Studies of Reading, 2020 Attention is correlated with reading, but the extent to which behavioral ratings and sustained attention relate to reading skills is unclear. We assessed 245 4th and 5th grade struggling readers (mean age = 10.3 years) on behavioral ratings of attention, sustained attention, and reading over a school year.
Kelly T. Macdonald +6 more
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A Hardware/Software Platform to Acquire Bioelectrical Signals. A Case Study: Characterizing Computer Access through Attention [PDF]
, 2017 This paper describes a hardware/software platform to acquire human body signals. In the field of physiological computing it is desirable to have a system that allows the synchronized acquisition of signals coming from different sources.
Berrazueta Alvarado, Santiago +7 more
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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
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Time perception and its neuropsychological correlates in patients with schizophrenia and in healthy volunteers [PDF]
, 2009 Disordered time perception has been reported in schizophrenia. We investigated time perception dysfunction and its neuropsychological correlates in patients with schizophrenia.
Andreasen +56 more
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