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Questions tagged [attention]

For questions regarding how the brain and mind filter out different aspects of the environment to attend to others with greater salience, and experimental paradigms that explore these mechanisms or their underlying neural bases.

For questions regarding how the brain and mind filter out different aspects of the environment to attend to others with greater salience, and experimental paradigms that explore these mechanisms or their underlying neural bases.

For more information, see: Attention (on Wikipedia) and Attention (on Scholarpedia)

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Can attention be improved to reduce the frequency of mistakes?

There is a class of error that is sometimes colloquially referred to as "not paying attention". These are the sorts of error where the subject knows the correct way to perform a task, but fails to follow it due to a lapse in whatever mental process…
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Why did Moray think Treisman's Attenuation Model was inconsistent with additional costs for simultaneous targets?

I have been reading http://psych.stanford.edu/~jlm/pdfs/Norman76.pdf, which on pp34-36 present an excerpt from a book by Neville Moray. Tone bursts of 3000 Hz were delivered to one ear and tone bursts of 2111 Hz to the other ear of observers. The…
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Uninterrupted attention span

Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_span) reports that attention can be sustained in adults for a few hours, but I remember studying that attention can be effectively held only for a few seconds, after which the brain takes a short…
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What makes a sight or an image mesmerizing and irresistible?

There are some examples of this. What makes us: Feel we just HAVE TO watch that video or an image again, it's common with comedy videos Feel we need to stare at a such a beautiful sight, a person or an image It's not that something is particularly…
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How can you learn to engage in highly focused thinking for a sustained period of time?

Is there some research on how to engage in highly-focused thinking for more than a few hours at a time? I have read (informally, i.e., not research papers) that engaging in enjoyable non-focused thinking for a few hours after the effort may help…
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Why does the mind go on "autopilot" at times, and what are the costs associated with overrding this function?

Being in familiar places, performing routine acts, and having "common" experiences is often reported to result in the brain entering a kind of "autopilot" mode. In autopilot, one carries out the familiar, routine, common things that are called for,…
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