Attention

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Test of the effect of attention on judged length of a line.

Studies to assess experimentally whether attention affects the judged length of a line have produced discordant results. This paper reports the results of a test designed to avoid factors that were not controlled in previous studies. Stimuli were either ...
Sergio C Masin (Percept Mot Skills, 200304)
test-effect-attention-judged-length-line.asp

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Interest and attention in facial recognition.

When applied to facial recognition, the levels of processing paradigm has yielded consistent results: faces processed in deep conditions are recognized better than faces processed under shallow conditions. However, there are multiple explanations for ...
Melinda C R Burgess, George E Weaver (Percept Mot Skills, 200304)
interest-attention-facial-recognition.asp

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A cognitive-behavioural analysis of mental toughness in national rugby league football teams.

This study examined the relations between demographic characteristics of rugby players and selected aspects of psychological performance in rugby league football. Mental toughness was assessed using Psychological Performance Inventory and Hardiness on ...
Jim Golby, Michael Sheard, David Lavallee (Percept Mot Skills, 200304)
cognitive-behavioural-analysis-mental-toughness-national-rugby-league.asp

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Selective attention affects human brain stem frequency-following response.

Selective attention modifies long-latency cortical event-related potentials. Amplitudes are typically enhanced and/or latencies reduced when evoking stimuli are attended. However, there is controversy concerning the effects of selective attention on ...
Gary C Galbraith, Darlene M Olfman, Todd M Huffman (Neuroreport, 200304)
selective-attention-affects-human-brain-stem-frequency-following.asp

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Testing the stress-buffering effects of self engagement among soldiers on a military operation.

The present research examined whether self engagement moderated the stressor-strain relationship in a sample of U.S. soldiers deployed on a peacekeeping mission to Bosnia. Given that individuals were nested within groups (Army companies), we examined the ...
Thomas W Britt, Paul D Bliese (J Pers, 200304)
testing-stress-buffering-effects-self-engagement-soldiers-military.asp

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Coloring only a single letter does not eliminate color-word interference in a vocal-response Stroop task: automaticity revealed.

The presence of an interference effect in naming the print color of color words (J. R. Stroop, 1935) suggests that responses associated with the irrelevant-word dimension of the display are activated involuntarily. In the present study, the author ...
Harvey H C Marmurek (J Gen Psychol, 200304)
coloring-only-single-letter-not-eliminate-color-word-interference.asp

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Startle eyeblink modulation: detecting changes in directed attentional allocation during early preattentive processing.

Startle eyeblink modification was examined as a measure of allocation of attentional resources during active attention tasks in the early stage of information processing. Fifty-five participants were presented with a series of 250- and 40-ms tones of ...
Sharon Steele-Laing, Leslie H Hicks (Int J Psychophysiol, 200304)
startle-eyeblink-modulation-detecting-changes-directed-attentional.asp

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Negative facial expression captures attention and disrupts performance.

In two experiments, participants counted features of schematic faces with positive, negative, or neutral emotional expressions. In Experiment 1 it was found that counting features took longer when they were embedded in negative as opposed to positive ...
John D Eastwood, Daniel Smilek, Philip M Merikle (Percept Psychophys, 200304)
negative-facial-expression-captures-attention-disrupts-performance.asp

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The costs and benefits of tonal centers for chord processing.

Harmonic priming studies have shown that a musical context, with its established tonal center, influences target chord processing. This study investigated costs and benefits of priming tonal centers for target processing by adding a baseline condition ...
Barbara Tillmann, Petr Janata, Jeffrey Birk, Jamshed J Bharucha (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200304)
costs-benefits-tonal-centers-chord-processing.asp

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Can blindness to response-compatible stimuli be observed in the absence of a response?

Blindness to response-compatible stimuli is the finding that targets are identified less accurately when presented during the planning or execution of a congruent response (e.g., right arrow presented during a right keypress) versus an incongruent ...
Biljana Stevanovski, Chris Oriet, Pierre Jolicoeur (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform, 200304)
blindness-response-compatible-stimuli-observed-absence-response.asp