Algorithms and selective attention

Effectiveness of Music Therapy on Sustained Attention and Selective Attention in Children with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of music therapy on sustained attention and selective attention in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The research method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population included all children with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder who referred to psycholog...

Selective attention.

Sense, Reference and Selective Attention

he idea that there is a distinction between propositional and Ti magistic content is familiar and compelling, but it brings with it a problem. The problem is to explain the relation between the two types of content. This problem can seem so difficult that to escape it, you would abandon the propositional/imagistic distinction. But that is an extreme reaction; we can solve the problem. My propos...

Selective attention and social interest.

Social interest may well be called Adler's most distinctive concept (5). In his theory it is the barometer of normality and adjustment. "All failures-neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes-are failures because they are lacking in social interest" (2, p. 156). Social interest thus is a crucial factor in one's development. But it does no...

Facial expression and selective attention

Recent findings demonstrate that faces with an emotional expression tend to attract attention more than neutral faces, especially when having some threat-related value (anger or fear). These findings suggest that discrimination of emotional cues in faces can at least partly be extracted at preattentive or unconscious stages of processing, and then serve to enhance awareness and behavioural resp...