Attention To Detail

observe attention. Whether I am observing myself slowly lose my ability to focus on my instructors or observing a fellow student staring blankly into space while the instruction continues to give their lecture. While it would be nice to be able to give 100% of my attention to my instructors’ lectures, it is impossible to do so because attention is limited in both time and capacity. There is also an observable difference in students that engage in selective attention and divided attention.…

Orienting is the gateway to attention and is defined as the aligning of attention with a source of sensory signal. Covert orienting is the shifting of attention without eye or head movement. It enhances performances by detecting the targets faster and more accurately. Posner’s location cueing paradigm has been used to study this phenomenon scientifically and it has become one of the most important topics of research in cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, and cognitive…

pertaining to perceptual load and early or late selective attention theories. Better understanding whether or not selective attention can be sustained during a perceptual task, even when there is a distractor, provides valuable insight into how humans function on a day-to-day basis. Prior research showed that when a person was doing a task that involved high perceptual effort they were better able to focus, thus validating early selective attention (Lavie, 2005). Moreover, tasks that were viewed…

unable to perform as well as the other child. One activity that really caught my attention was a dancing activity. After lunch, the teacher projected some music and…

In a research article, titled “Top-Down Processes Override Bottom-up Interference in the Flanker Task” by Rotem Avital-Cohen and Yehoshua Tsal, it is clear that one of these theories is more supported by the evidence given. This article goes in to detail about a study done to provide more evidence for top down processing applying to the targets as well as the flanking distractors. An important question that this article tries to answer is what the fundamental differences are between target and…

can be harmful. Mayer, Griffith, Jurkowitz, and Rothman (2008) studied in their experiments the effect of increasing student interest by what they called extraneous or seductive details. As previously mentioned, multimedia presentations can increase attention, but it is important to note how they increase that attention. In the experiment, the researchers tested groups of participants on their retention of information about how a cold virus infects the human body after either a booklet,…

cognition, baking relies on knowledge obtained from thinking, understanding, remembering, feeling and perceiving, to perform this activity successfully the Memory systems play a huge role. Working memory is important because it allows you to focus your attention and temporarily store relevant information needed to perform the activity such as reading comprehension which is necessary for following the multistep directions of the recipes. The visual-spatial working memory helps us visualize…

Meditation is the best way to relax and de-stress. It can also improve the focus and concentration, which are really essential to accomplish the tasks at hand. In today’s age, distractions are in plenty and these can keep us away from completing the immediate work. Meditating regularly can improve our creativity and reduce the stress, which can lead to better results. How to Meditate? For people, who are used to doing Multitasking, to sit at one place quietly, can seem to be quite daunting.…

classification, it is usually necessary to pay selective attention to only relevant features necessary for identifying instances of the class while ignoring irrelevant features (not useful for predicting class membership). Although selective attention leads to efficient learning, especially when making connections between instances with very sparse similarities and dense dissimilarities, it has its cost. The primary cost of selective attention is a learned inattention to features that are not…

I wish I used less fillers and mazes and was more precise. Sometimes, I would use too much selective attention, for example I focused so much on the interviewee’s family relationships and reciprocal treatment, that I forgot to ask about her resentment for putting others first. I also could have questioned her coping skills regarding her family’s laxity.…