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Carol Furchner's List: cog-attention
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Jul 05, 14
Need to try it with meditators and with people in other cultures before concluding "human nature."
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Jun 22, 14
Describes effects of multitasking, the benefits of single-tasking. Video
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Apr 19, 14
A proposed mechanism underlying selective attention, active suppression of distracting objects
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Apr 23, 13
Brain resources that ordinarily are allocated to one type of function get mobilized and become active when searching for a specific object.
"The findings help explain why we find it difficult to concentrate on more than one task at a time." -
Jan 26, 13
University of Utah study on multitasking and perception of ability to multitask: those who thing they are good, aren't, possibly because they're also poor at monitoring their own performance, or because they have difficulty focusing on the the task in front of them.
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Jan 08, 13
Interruptions increase the error rates, even when the task being interrupted is fairly simple and the interruptor is brief, just 2-3 seconds long.
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Dec 05, 12
Hypothesis: Boredom is a phenomenon of attention, either too much or too little competing for attention, more to do with how we respond to the circumstances than the circumstances themselves.
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Nov 04, 12
Describes the Default Mode Network (involved in internally focused tasks such as recalling personal memories, daydreaming, sleeping, imagining the future, taking the perspective of others) and the Executive Attention Network, involved when attention is focused outwards, solving problems, taking tests, processing the external world. Researchers examining people in fMRIs find that when one is active, the other appears to be inactive, as if there is a kind of mutual inhibition between them.
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Sep 28, 12
Another form of inattentional deafness? Or are disappearing sounds less salient than sounds that appear?
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Aug 04, 11
Website to accompany book, The Invisible Gorilla, by Chabris and Simons
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Aug 15, 12
GREAT demo of change blindness. Many changes happen during the video scene, but they're hard to see.
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