Attention

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Allocation of attention and production of time intervals.

14 students enrolled in introductory psychology classes engaged in several trials of card sorting to acquire the rule for correct sorting. They also were instructed to keep track of time simultaneously and to continue sorting for what they believed was ...
Thomas F Sawyer (Percept Mot Skills, 200306)
allocation-attention-production-time-intervals.asp

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Right lateral fusiform gyrus dysfunction during facial information processing in schizophrenia.

BACKGROUND: Patients with schizophrenia exhibit facial information processing deficits that likely contribute to their social dysfunction. Whether the deficits involve facial affect and/or identity processing or result from other cognitive abnormalities ...
Javier Quintana, Tiffany Wong, Elena Ortiz-Portillo, Stephen R Marder, John C Mazziotta (Biol Psychiatry, 200306)
right-lateral-fusiform-gyrus-dysfunction-facial-information.asp

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How do children coordinate simultaneous upper and lower extremity tasks? The development of dual motor task coordination.

When performing simultaneous clapping with walking or galloping, adults adopt coupled, consistent and stable dual motor task coordination; do developmental trends in this coordination exist? In this study, we measured and compared coupling ...
Nancy Getchell, Jill Whitall (J Exp Child Psychol, 200306)
children-coordinate-simultaneous-upper-lower-extremity-tasks.asp

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The allocation of attention during locomotion is altered by anxiety.

We tested the hypotheses that: (1) anxiety regarding the possibility of falling alters the attentional demands of gait; and (2) this alteration in the attentional requirements of gait occurs independently of gait pattern accommodations. Sixteen younger ...
William H Gage, Ryan J Sleik, Melody A Polych, Nicole C McKenzie, Lesley A Brown (Exp Brain Res, 200306)
allocation-attention-locomotion-altered-anxiety.asp

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Functional organization of human intraparietal and frontal cortex for attending, looking, and pointing.

We studied the functional organization of human posterior parietal and frontal cortex using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to map preparatory signals for attending, looking, and pointing to a peripheral visual location. The human frontal ...
Serguei V Astafiev, Gordon L Shulman, Christine M Stanley, Abraham Z Snyder, David C Van Essen, Maurizio Corbetta (J Neurosci, 200306)
functional-organization-human-intraparietal-frontal-cortex-attending.asp

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The interface between emotion and attention: a review of evidence from psychology and neuroscience.

This review addresses the interconnections between emotional and attentional processing, with an emphasis on both behavioral and neuroscientific findings. Are emotional stimuli encoded automatically, and what does that mean? How are emotional stimuli ...
Rebecca J Compton (Behav Cogn Neurosci Rev, 200306)
interface-emotion-attention-review-evidence-psychology-neuroscience.asp

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Neurocognitive effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation in severe major depression.

OBJECTIVE: Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is being investigated as a potential treatment for depression. Few studies have addressed the neurocognitive effects of a course of rTMS in severely depressed patients. We evaluated ...
Brian Martis, Danesh Alam, Sheila M Dowd, S Kristian Hill, Rajiv P Sharma, Cherise Rosen, Neil Pliskin, Eileen Martin, Valorie Carson, Philip G Janicak (Clin Neurophysiol, 200306)
neurocognitive-effects-repetitive-transcranial-magnetic-stimulation.asp

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Accommodation and vergence require effort-to-see.

PURPOSE: Accommodation and vergence both appear to be influenced by multiple nonsensory factors. "Effort-to-see" is one of these factors. This study was designed to assess the extent to which effort-to-see affects accommodation and vergence. METHOD: Nine ...
Ellie L Francis, Bai-chuan Jiang, D Alfred Owens, Richard A Tyrrell (Optom Vis Sci, 200306)
accommodation-vergence-require-effort-see.asp

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Central coherence and cognitive shifting in relation to social improvement in high-functioning young adults with autism.

The objective of this prospective study was to evaluate the possible role of two cognitive styles--weak central coherence and poor cognitive shifting--in predicting social improvement in patients with autistic disorder. Thirty patients, largely similar ...
Hans J C Berger, Francisca H T M Aerts, Karel P M van Spaendonck, Alexander R Cools, Jan-Pieter Teunisse (J Clin Exp Neuropsychol, 200306)
central-coherence-cognitive-shifting-relation-social-improvement-high.asp

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Attentional disorders in patients with complex partial epilepsy.

A study of concentrated attention patterns in epileptic patients was conducted with the objectives: characterization of the patients epileptic condition; assessment of the concentrated attention levels in epileptic and nonepileptic individuals; ...
Florindo Stella, Jayme Antunes Maciel (Arq Neuropsiquiatr, 200306)
attentional-disorders-patients-complex-partial-epilepsy.asp