Pupillometry as a Window into Young Children’s Sustained Attention
Sustained attention is critical to cognition, social competence, and academic success. Importantly, sustained attention undergoes significant development over the early childhood period.
Viridiana L. Benitez, Matthew K. Robison
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Familial influences on sustained attention and inhibition in preschoolers [PDF]
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
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The relationship of mindfulness with sustained and selective attentional performance
Mindfulness as a base of psychological treatments is sustained monitoring of current conditions. The purpose of the presented study was to investige the relationship between mindfulness and sustained and selective attention.
V. Nejati +2 more
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Towards a Process Model of Sustained Attention Tests
Taking up new approaches and calls for experimental test validation, in the present study we propose and validate a process model of sustained attention tests.
Iris Blotenberg, Lothar Schmidt-Atzert
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The Role of Sustained Attention in the Production of Conjoined Noun Phrases: An Individual Differences Study. [PDF]
It has previously been shown that language production, performed simultaneously with a nonlinguistic task, involves sustained attention. Sustained attention concerns the ability to maintain alertness over time.
Suzanne R Jongman +2 more
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Friendly Fire and the Sustained Attention to Response Task [PDF]
Objective: We investigated whether losses of inhibitory control could be responsible for some friendly-fire incidents. Background: Several factors are commonly cited to explain friendly-fire incidents, but failure of inhibitory control has not yet been ...
Bailey L. +15 more
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Common neural recruitment across diverse sustained attention tasks.
At one level "sustained attention" is simply a description of a task demand. It is often used, however, in reference to a putatively unitary capacity to remain engaged in tasks that are lengthy, dull, repetitive and/or characterised by long intervals ...
Jessica A Grahn, Tom Manly
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Childhood Adversity and Dimensional Variations in Adult Sustained Attention
Background and ObjectiveSustained attention is a transdiagnostic phenotype linked with most forms of psychopathology. We sought to understand factors that influence the development of sustained attention, by looking at the relationship between childhood ...
Sarah C. Vogel +12 more
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Impact of active and latent concerns about COVID-19 on attention
The interactions between emotion and attention are complex due to the multifaceted nature of attention. Adding to this complexity, the COVID-19 pandemic has altered the emotional landscape, broadly heightening health and financial concerns.
Caitlin A. Sisk +4 more
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Studying the role of human parietal cortex in visuospatial attention with concurrent TMS-fMRI [PDF]
Combining transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) with concurrent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows study of how local brain stimulation may causally affect activity in remote brain regions.
F. Blankenburg +45 more
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