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Definition of 'Attention'

Focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating.

Common names: Attention; Attentions; Concentration; Concentrations

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Memory and decision making in the frontal cortex during visual motion processing for smooth pursuit eye movements.

9 Jun 2009 Cortical motor areas are thought to contribute "higher-order processing," but what that processing might include is unknown. Previous studies of the smooth pursuit-related discharge of supplementary eye field (SEF) neurons have not distinguished ... Read more...


V4 activity predicts the strength of visual short-term memory representations.

8 Jun 2009 Recent studies have shown the existence of a form of visual memory that lies intermediate of iconic memory and visual short-term memory (VSTM), in terms of both capacity (up to 15 items) and the duration of the memory trace (up to 4 s). Because new ... Read more...


Firing patterns in superior colliculus of head-unrestrained monkey during normal and perturbed gaze saccades reveal short-latency feedback and a sluggish rostral shift in activity.

Jun 2009 The superior colliculus (SC) encodes a saccade via the spatial position of an ensemble of active neurons on its motor map. Downstream circuits control muscles with the temporal code of firing frequency and duration. The moving hill hypothesis ... Read more...

 

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Technical information about 'Attention'

Definition: Focusing on certain aspects of current experience to the exclusion of others. It is the act of heeding or taking notice or concentrating.

Descriptor UI: D001288

Alternative terms: Attention; Attentions; Concentration; Concentrations;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F02.830.104.214;

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