Educators and trainers face competition for attention from mobile devices and social networking services. Of course, prior to the development of these technologies, we faced a similar challenge Designing Choreographies for the “New Economy of Attention” is an interesting discussion of attention and distraction.
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The optimum positioning of roadside advertisements is recognized by the industry as an important factor in attracting the attention of passing drivers. Less acknowledged is the possibility that the location of an advertisement may distract attention from vital driving-related information.
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/16427019
Auditory stimulation, attention-enhanced processing of sounds and motor responding during the loudness discrimination task activated supratemporal (auditory cortex) and inferior parietal areas bilaterally and left-hemisphere (contralateral to the hand used for responding) motor areas.
www.medscape.com/medline/abstract/17368939
Distraction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Distraction is the diversion of attention of an individual or group from the chosen object of attention onto the source of distraction. Distraction is caused by one of the following: lack of ability ...
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Sam Anderson goes on an exploratory journey in the New Yorker: from the much lamented poverty of attention to unleashing a war on it to embracing it.  Eloquently written by someone who seems to know the addiction to distraction all too well, he covers the territory from internet addiction to neuroscience and...
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Check out 10 tips adapted from Jackson's book Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age that can reduce distraction in your life, and help bring about what she calls a "renaissance of attention.
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If you’ve been obsessed with the productivity space for any length of time like those of us here at Lifehack, you’ll no doubt have read more than your fill on the topics of attention and distraction.
www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/routing-the-yin-... www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/routing-the-yin-and-yang-of-attention-and-distraction.html
I’m going to pause here, right at the beginning of my riveting article about attention, and ask you to please get all of your precious 21st-century distractions out of your system now. Check the score of the Mets game;
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Even as the latest "Millenial" generation emerges that is used to living in a "perpetual state of partial attention"... is that a good thing? As we increasingly divide our attention and our focus among many different ... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Social media, attention, distraction and overload...:
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Research Review Of Potential Safety Effects Of Electronic Billboards On Driver Attention And Distraction ... 2.4.1 Distraction; 2.4.2 Conspicuity of Displays; 2.4.3 Legibility; 2.5 The Driver; 2.5.1 Driver Age; 2.5.2 Driver Familiarity with Route; 2.6 Measures of Effectiveness; 2.6.1 Surrogates; 2.6.2 Current Measurement...
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