“Directing attention to listening effectively ‘turns down the volume’ on input to the visual parts of the brain. ... When attention is deployed to one modality - say, in this case, talking on a cell phone - it necessarily extracts a cost on another modality - in this case, the visual task of driving.”...
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Attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. Attention has also been referred to as the allocation of processing resou...
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We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity in younger and older adults while they were engaged in an auditory verbal recognition test under either full or divided attention (FA or DA).
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When subjects suppressed the OKN while simultaneously paying covert attention to a feature of the OK stimulus, suppression of the OKN was less well suppressed. The active OKN was vigorous. Age affected only the divided attention task, perhaps reflecting a diminution in resources of attention with age.
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A Cognitive Psychology Resourc ... Perceptual Processes Theories of Object Recognition Change Blindness Attention ... Divided Attention Tas...
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A lot of the Ars readership would probably fit this description: TV on in the background, computer screen in front of them, and various windows—mail, chat, browser—vying for attention. Although most people find themselves multitasking, we're remarkably bad at it.
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Divided Attention and Dual Task Performance ... Theoretical Interpretations of Divided Attention ... • Treisman and Gelade (1980) hypothesized that if isolated features involved divided attention and targets could be identified in parallel with fillers, and combination features involved focused attention and targets could...
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However, in the divided-attention tasks, listeners always understand the louder source, even when it is off to the side, suggesting that sources to the side are easy to understand when they are salient. We suspect that listeners build up an expectation that they should attend t o the 0 direction throughout the experiment.
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Attention arises through a host of complex processes that contribute to consciousness itself. ... Orientation and Executive Control are two processes of consciousness that pertain to attention. ... Divided Attention is the ability to attend to two or more activities simultaneously.
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Attention can be divided into categories that describe specific types of attentional weaknesses. The first category deals with encoding or problems with incoming stimuli and the storage of this stimuli ... Divided attention refers to the ability to split attention between two or more inputs or aspects of a task.
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