Questions tagged [attention]
For questions regarding how the brain and mind filter out different aspects of the environment to attend to others with greater salience, and experimental paradigms that explore these mechanisms or their underlying neural bases.
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How long does it take to refocus after context switching?
Context switching has been highlighted for the toll it takes on productivity at great length, particularly by people who work in software and project management.
Are there any psychology/...
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What is the effect of mindfulness practice on cognition?
The following article by ScienceDaily reported on a paper in Psychological Science (Mrazek et al., 2013), claiming that mindfulness training led to improved working memory and GRE scores. These ...
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What are effective strategies for increasing concentration and motivation when doing seemingly passive activities such as reading journal articles?
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Unfortunately I am not a specialist in Cognitive Science I am just a regular CS student who has big interest in cognitive science.
I want to share with you some interesting observation I ...
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What works for procrastination?
Procrastination seems universal and well understood by the public. However, there seems to be very little research into techniques and approaches that works to reduce and manage procrastination.
The ...
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Why do some students find it difficult to focus on study when at home?
Description: Student quite enthusiastic and focused during class, but can't recreate the same enthusiasm and concentration when studying alone in home. Motivation is unable to reduce the level of ...
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Is our attention attracted by bright lights?
Bright lights are often used to attract human attention. For example, brightly lit signs, despite often being too bright to look at directly are often used for information and/or advertisement.
Why ...
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Can attention be improved to reduce the frequency of mistakes?
There is a class of error that is sometimes colloquially referred to as "not paying attention". These are the sorts of error where the subject knows the correct way to perform a task, but fails to ...
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Treatment and strategies for procrastination for ADHD
I am keen to know what strategies and treatment approaches works best for procrastination for people with ADHD?
People with ADHD seem to have a different level of complexity from the usual ...
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What is "Attention" in terms of brain activity?
A rather basic question, but I don't know the answer to that - What is human "attention" that can be focused on different parts of the body or outside objects?
For example, I can focus my attention ...
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Is hypnosis really concentration/focus?
It's widely claimed that hypnosis is a state of highly focused attention.
But I've also seen many claims that the hypnotic state is about accessing the subconscious mind directly, essentially "...
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What is the relationship between Working Memory and Attention, and how can one assess his WM?
If someone who had low working memory scores as a child suddenly sees in improvement in attention as he grows older, does his ability to hold and manipulate information also increase? Or does ...
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Do we only hear what we want to hear?
When I Google this, the results are about misinterpreting what we hear to suit what we want or expect. However, I'm interested to know if we ignore specific things we hear and focus on things we are ...
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Effects of quantity and quality of breaks on learning
Are there papers which discuss the effects of quantity and quality of breaks during learning? Do state of the art papers have a common ground?
So far I have found these papers:
The Fourth R: Recess ...
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What is the relationship between top-down mechanism and priming the visual system in the following experiment?
I am currently conducting an experiment where a subject is shown a series of photographs of various objects. Each photo contains a single object. Before showing the photograph, a screen with a text ...
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Does a more ergonomic and user friendly interface/device make the human brain work less?
There was an interesting discussion on UX.StackExchange related to washing machines and their front windows. I was very surprised that it took me like 2 minutes or so to figure out why the washing ...
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Can reduced cognitive load lead to some kind of mental or physical "atrophy"?
Muscles, if you don't use them, degenerate. Everyone who has had a broken leg in a cast for a few weeks and then seen the thin stick that reemerged once the cast was removed, can attest to that fact.
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Which brain areas are linked to Hyperactivity in ADHD?
I'm looking for some research identifying which brain areas or biological processes are behind specifically the hyperactivity symptoms of ADHD? I have done a preliminary search but most of the ...
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What happens to brain during meditation?
Meditation has many benefits.For example it helps to relax, reduce stress, etc. But how it is working? What exactly happens to our brains during meditation?
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What makes a sight or an image mesmerizing and irresistible?
There are some examples of this.
What makes us:
Feel we just HAVE TO watch that video or an image again, it's common with comedy videos
Feel we need to stare at a such a beautiful sight, a person or ...
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What is the effect of Daylight Saving Time on attentiveness and productivity?
This weekend the clocks were set an our later (in some countries), such that the daylight lasts an hour longer in the evening. This has several reasons, among which a reduction in energy consumption ...