Attention
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Perspective: A perfect storm: the convergence of bullet points, competencies, and screen reading in medical education.

30 Oct 2009 Three distinct phenomena are currently at play in medical education: (1) the pervasive use of PowerPoint in teaching, (2) the wholesale application of competency models, and (3) the shift from paper reading to screen reading regardless of course, ... Read more...

Mental training enhances attentional stability: neural and behavioral evidence.

19 Oct 2009 The capacity to stabilize the content of attention over time varies among individuals, and its impairment is a hallmark of several mental illnesses. Impairments in sustained attention in patients with attention disorders have been associated with ... Read more...

Relationship between neural responses and visual grouping in the monkey parietal cortex.

19 Oct 2009 Visual grouping through the binding of multiple discrete elements is an important component of object perception, and neurological studies have shown that the posterior parietal cortex plays a vital role in that process. To study the neural ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Attention'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Perspective: A perfect storm: the convergence of bullet points, competencies, and screen reading in medical education. 30 Oct 2009
• Mental training enhances attentional stability: neural and behavioral evidence. 19 Oct 2009
• Relationship between neural responses and visual grouping in the monkey parietal cortex. 19 Oct 2009
• Gamma-band synchronization in the macaque hippocampus and memory formation. 5 Oct 2009
• Learning sculpts the spontaneous activity of the resting human brain. 3 Oct 2009
• Meditation. Calming a restless mind. 29 Sep 2009
• Interactions between cognition and circadian rhythms: attentional demands modify circadian entrainment. 29 Sep 2009
• The time course of task switching: a speed--accuracy trade-off analysis. 29 Sep 2009
• Verbal representation in task order control: an examination with transition and task cues in random task switching. 29 Sep 2009
• Dynamics of activation of semantically similar concepts during spoken word recognition. 29 Sep 2009
• Nonlocal effects of prosodic boundaries. 29 Sep 2009
• Strength-based criterion shifts in recognition memory. 29 Sep 2009
• Age differences in collaborative memory: the role of retrieval manipulations. 29 Sep 2009
• Attention during memory retrieval enhances future remembering. 29 Sep 2009
• The tenacious nature of memory binding for arousing negative items. 29 Sep 2009
• The role of mindfulness in borderline personality disorder features. 29 Sep 2009
• The role of the parietal lobe in visual extinction studied with transcranial magnetic stimulation. 29 Sep 2009
• Dopaminergic haplotype as a predictor of spatial inattention in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. 29 Sep 2009
• Influence of NOS1 on verbal intelligence and working memory in both patients with schizophrenia and healthy control subjects. 29 Sep 2009
• Monitoring with head-mounted displays: performance and safety in a full-scale simulator and part-task trainer. 29 Sep 2009

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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;