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What is "Attention" in terms of brain activity?
Firstly its important to note that attention basically the outcome of automatic processes, although attention may easily be directed by conscious choices.
As a previous poster mentioned the ...
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Is our attention attracted by bright lights?
In general, evidence suggests that we are attracted to contrast rather than brightness (luminance). For example, the onset of a bright light on a dark background is often used as an exogenous cue for ...
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Mapping Sustained Attention on the brain (EEG)
You should consider using subject-specific alpha channels and frequency ranges. There are differences between individuals in alpha peak frequency. Also the placement of the EEG cap as well as small ...
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Is hypnosis really concentration/focus?
The answer lies in what is known of the conscious, unconscious and the presconscious parts of the mind, with preconscious is the scientific name for the subconscious, however, for the purposes of this ...
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Why do some students find it difficult to focus on study when at home?
The answer to this question could be found in the mind-wandering literature (see this for a review). Figure 1 in the paper really nicely depicts the possible situations possible when looking at task ...
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How to measure and quantify concentration or focus?
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Attention can be quantified with a sustained attention to response task.
Background
I think with focus or concentration you mean sustained attention to a certain task. A sustained ...
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Does playing video games increase attention and learning agility, therefore career performance
I think your references are good examples of the way that some of this research is covered in the media (World of Warcraft is good for you! Yay!) as opposed to the academic research which is much more ...
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Does mindfulness meditation work for highly inattentive individuals?
The most up-to-date research I can find at the moment specifically looking at children with ADHD is a systematic review and meta-analysis by Chimiklis et al (2018), and they point out that yoga, ...
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Treatment and strategies for procrastination for ADHD
This is an interesting question, and after mostly failing to find recent literature I've become fascinated at why this topic is not more heavily studied. It looks like a field ripe for disruption by ...
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Any ideas about the neural mechanism underlying the ASMR sensation?
I found one study that looked at ASMR and the Default Mode Network (DNM). The DMN consists of the medial prefrontal cortex, medial temporal gyri, bilateral inferior parietal cortices, precuneus and ...
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Why does clickbait use numbers?
Digital Marketing often produces 'content' for users to consume.
That content is ment to catch and keep the attention of the user, in an attempt to make the user trust and follow the sender (usually ...
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Is there evidence for “because it’s boring, it’s very easy to make errors”
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There is scientific evidence that boredom can increase error rates.
Background
My gut feeling would tell me that boredom decreases vigilance, which then would increase the chance of ...
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"Dyslexia" in reasoning?
Cognitive dissonance is often a problem when trying to convince someone of your position. Depending on the subject matter and how closely the position is held for the opposing party it can be very ...
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"Dyslexia" in reasoning?
So let me start off by saying that the word dyslexia is a well-defined term describing a condition typically affecting the left angular gyrus.
If you're looking for a biological condition that ...
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Is there a known mechanism by which people fall asleep less easy after watching TV?
What you describe is rather common for a certain type of insomnia, called psychophysiologic.
The patient has evidence of conditioned sleep difficulty and/
or heightened arousal in bed as ...
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What is the relationship between visual attention network and visual stream (Two-streams hypothesis)?
My short answer would be that there is no clear relationship between these two models about how visual information processing works in the brain. However, the terminology and evidence overlaps ...
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Why can't hemineglect patients be trained to actively pay attention to their neglected side?
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Symptoms of hemi-neglect are often accompanied by additional layers of cognitive deficits that make rehabilitation challenging. Logic reason is often dissociated from these patients' ...
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What is the relationship between Working Memory and Attention, and how can one assess his WM?
Engle has published extensive papers about this topic and if you are interested I suggest looking him up.
In 2001 Kane, Bleckley, Conway, & Engle (In Engle, 2002) attempted to directly measure ...
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Does distraction cause us to skip to the next step in a motor plan?
Q: Does distraction cause us to skip to the next step in a motor plan?
A: It depends on the processes in progress, characteristics of the subject and characteristics of the signal to produce ...
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What happens to brain during meditation?
I'm not sure about what happens in the brain while someone is actually meditating (i.e., the state effect of meditation), but a meta-analysis from last year (Fox et al., 2014) looked carefully at what ...
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what is the difference between mindfulness meditations and focusing on other things?
It is question I've been asking myself as well in my experience with mindfulness meditation.
Meditation is not manipulating experience, it is simple noticing it. Furthermore it focuses on sensory ...
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The clock stop when switching focus
Yes, there is a term for this phenomenon. It is called stopped-clock illusion. It’s a type of chronostasis or a kind of temporal illusion, that the time interval is perceived to be longer than it ...
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Sources on P1/N1 modulation with checkerboard probe
For the fundamentals, I always go back to the more dated literature that is heavily cited (in this field of research, which is pretty big given it uses visual evoked potentials, say >1k times). I ...
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What effects does multitasking have on comprehension and memory of audiobooks/speech?
There does not seem to be any research on your exact question on:
the effect of "low attention tasks" and "high attention tasks" on the comprehension and memory of speech modality ...
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What is "Attention" in terms of brain activity?
I'm unsure if there are necessarily specific areas for focusing on body parts, but I would assume that what you are talking about would function as part of the attentional system, which is a form of ...
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What is the effect of Daylight Saving Time on attentiveness and productivity?
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The amount of sleep that people get affects people attentiveness and their productivity to a large extent, as discussed by Rosekind et al. (2015). When switching to DST, many people ...
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What is considered an error in the sustained attention to response task (SART)?
Both are errors indeed. Pressing when a 3 is shown is called a false alarm, and not pressing when a three is shown is a miss. Correct responses are (1) hits (pressing when anything but a three is ...
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Which brain areas are linked to Hyperactivity in ADHD?
I think the studies that you were after have only recently been published earlier this year. 38 subjects with ADHD had fMRI scans and compared with a database. The study found that -
More severe ...
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What is the relationship between Working Memory and Attention, and how can one assess his WM?
Working memory (WM) and attention are interrelated, as a precondition for WM to operate is attention. In addition to attention we need awareness. The general view is that WM is explicit - conscious - ...
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Can the mind be trained to equanimously observe compulsive urges/cravings (without giving in / acting out)?
According to the article "Brief meditation training induces smoking reduction" one kind of mediation-training reduced smoking by 60% while a control group (relaxation training) showed no such effect.
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