Attention

history of encountering some of the test predators in their native habitats. This finding supports the claim that in threat sensitive predator avoidance hypothesis, the prey undergoes behavioural modifications in a manner that attracts very little attention to them. Thus it can be said that the prey is sensitized to the predator as a result of an encounter. The same concept can be applied to the predator as well in instances such as biological pest control when the predator is expected to kill…

What gets your attention? Today there are so many different advertisements, they use anything and everything they can to persuade the audience to buy their product, but what grabs one’s attention when an advertisement comes on? A commercial with hamsters driving a little green car, a commercial with a sad looking puppy and a celebrity asking for donations. Or maybe a commercial about yogurt and the host is giving all the nutritional facts of why it is so good and healthy. What all of these…

“Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.”-Archibald Putt.” Now I chose this specific author quote because I feel that it applies to the topic at hand “is modern Technology hurting us more than it’s helping us”? And in my opinion, I do not feel that modern technology is hurting us in any shape, way or Form. Technology not only helps us keep up with friends and family that we have grown out of…

I had the pleasure of interviewing Arvind Ashok on Tuesday, January 19th at Starbucks in Round Rock, Texas for about forty minutes. Throughout our conversation, he struck me as a young man who while seeming terse and systematic in his answers, was authentic in his thirst for learning inside and outside the classroom and his skill as an on point communicator was present throughout the interview. Arvind grew up in a house with books of all types, which he soon learned were fun and took them in…

nonfiction does not use exaggeration and false or made up facts. “The goal is to make nonfiction stories read like fiction so that your readers are as enthralled by fact as they are by fantasy.” Who says that nonfiction can’t be interesting, fun, and attention catching?…

This first semester of college has been the fastest three and a half months of my life and sitting here writing this paper I find a reflection is more than called for. The ‘My Story’ project was a scary project coming into, because there was a lot of room to do what we wanted. At first glance the ‘My Story’ assignment was intended to point out what made us individuals, but in the end it showed us all what make us one. The largest aspect seen in every story was the portion of ourselves that we…

going to explore two different areas of cognition; attention and response inhibition and their uses in sport, including some examples. Attention is the ability to concentrate on useful stimuli either intendedly or involuntarily. Response inhibition is the ability to stop an action. This essay also includes information about the brain areas connected to attention and response inhibition and a summary of tests that can be used to evaluate attention and response inhibition. Additionally, this essay…

years, because of all the bad things that could happen due to change blindness. Not only was I fascinated that our perception could miss small changes in our surroundings, but I was also terrified. The phenomenon of change blindness captured my attention, because of all of the accidents that could be caused by something like this. For example, change blindness…

shifting gaze and attention- deep reading is therefore an unnatural process of thought, “one that demand(s) sustained, unbroken attention to a single static object” (Carr 64). As Nicholas Carr emphasizes how “the brain of the book reader was more than a literate brain- it was a literary brain,” it is evident that the brain becomes trained according to the environment; the brain becomes more adept to concentration and neural links become strengthened for overall control of attention. In Wallace…

JOINT ATTENTION: “FAMILY LEARNING TALK” IN MUSEUMS Joint attention—when people are focused on the same object or subject in their surroundings—is a critical component of language and communication learning for infants and children. Museums, specifically, offer visitors opportunities for free choice learning, but can also be very stimulating, with multiple options competing for visitors’ attention. However, there is no research addressing the role that joint attention can play in family…