Attention

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Effect of cellular telephone conversations and other potential interference on reaction time in a braking response.

This experiment studied the effect of phone conversations and other potential interference on reaction time (RT) in a braking response. Using a laboratory station which simulated the foot activity in driving, 22 research participants were requested to ...
William Consiglio, Peter Driscoll, Matthew Witte, William P Berg (Accid Anal Prev, 200307)
effect-cellular-telephone-conversations-other-potential-interference.asp

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The distraction effects of phone use during a crucial driving maneuver.

Forty-two licensed drivers were tested in an experiment that required them to respond to an in-vehicle phone at the same time that they were faced with making a crucial stopping decision. Using test track facilities, we also examined the influence of ...
P A Hancock, M Lesch, L Simmons (Accid Anal Prev, 200307)
distraction-effects-phone-crucial-driving-maneuver.asp

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Pure perceptual-based sequence learning.

Learning a sequence of target locations when the sequence is uncorrelated with a sequence of responses and target location is not the response dimension (pure perceptual-based sequence learning) was examined. Using probabilistic sequences of target ...
Gilbert Remillard (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200307)
pure-perceptual-based-sequence-learning.asp

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Modulations of early somatosensory ERP components by transient and sustained spatial attention.

To investigate when and how spatial attention affects somatosensory processing, event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded in response to mechanical tactile stimuli delivered to the left and right hand while attention was directed to one of ...
Martin Eimer, Bettina Forster (Exp Brain Res, 200307)
modulations-early-somatosensory-erp-components-transient-sustained.asp

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Learning myopia: an adaptive recency effect in category learning.

Recency effects (REs) have been well established in memory and probability learning paradigms but have received little attention in category earning research. Extant categorization models predict REs to be unaffected by learning, whereas a functional ...
Matt Jones, Winston R Sieck (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200307)
learning-myopia-adaptive-recency-effect-category-learning.asp

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The "ticktock" of our internal clock: direct brain evidence of subjective accents in isochronous sequences.

The phenomenon commonly known as subjective accenting refers to the fact that identical sound events within purely isochronous sequences are perceived as unequal. Although subjective accenting has been extensively explored using behavioral methods, no ...
Renaud Brochard, Donna Abecasis, Doug Potter, Richard Ragot, Carolyn Drake (Psychol Sci, 200307)
ticktock-internal-clock-direct-brain-evidence-subjective-accents.asp

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Effects of THC on behavioral measures of impulsivity in humans.

This study investigated the acute effects of delta(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) on four behavioral measures of impulsivity in recreational marijuana users. Although impulsive behavior has been studied using several different measures of impulsivity, few ...
Jennifer McDonald, Laura Schleifer, Jerry B Richards, Harriet de Wit (Neuropsychopharmacology, 200307)
effects-thc-behavioral-measures-impulsivity-humans.asp

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Visual motion influences the contingent auditory motion aftereffect.

In this study, we show that the contingent auditory motion aftereffect is strongly influenced by visual motion information. During an induction phase, participants listened to rightward-moving sounds with falling pitch alternated with leftward-moving ...
Jean Vroomen, Beatrice de Gelder (Psychol Sci, 200307)
visual-motion-influences-contingent-auditory-motion-aftereffect.asp

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A primitive memory system for the deployment of transient attention.

When transient attention is summoned by the sudden appearance of a large cue, it can be deployed to a small portion of the cue where a target appeared on previous trials (Kristjánsson, Mackeben, & Nakayama, 2001). This result runs counter to the view ...
Arni Kristjánsson, Ken Nakayama (Percept Psychophys, 200307)
primitive-memory-system-deployment-transient-attention.asp

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Spatial localization precedes temporal determination in visual perception.

The temporal order of two spots of light successively appearing in the dark, just before a saccade, influences their perceived spatial relation. Both spots are mislocalized in the saccade direction--the second more so than the first--because ...
Junghyun Park, Madeleine Schlag-Rey, John Schlag (Vision Res, 200307)
spatial-localization-precedes-temporal-determination-visual-perception.asp