Selective attention

Selective attention.

Effectiveness of Attention Rehabilitation on Decreasing Selective Attention Deficits in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis

Objective: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressive disease of CNS and cognitive impairment is a common concomitant of it that affects various aspects of cognitive functioning like attention and memory as well as attentional complex tasks such as selective attention. The present study investigated the effectiveness of attention rehabilitation on decreasing selective attention deficits in patien...

Selective attention in birds

The natural world constantly inundates our senses with an abundance of information. Selective attention enables us to navigate this abundance intelligently by selecting the information that is most relevant, at each moment in time, for differential processing and decision-making. The attributes of attention have been studied in humans for over a century. In his influential 19(th) century treati...

Selective Attention Improves Learning

We demonstrate that selective attention can improve learning. Considerably fewer samples are needed to learn a source separation problem when the inputs are pre-segmented by the proposed model. The model combines biased-competition model for attention with a habituation mechanism which allows the focus of attention to switch from one object to another. The criteria for segmenting objects are es...

Multimodal, Multilevel Selective Attention

Early knowledge based systems did not incorporate high-bandwidth I/O due to performance limitations of computers of that era. Today, intelligent agents and robots running on much more powerful computers can incorporate vision, sound, network, sonar and other modes of input. These additional inputs provide much more information about the environment, but bring additional problems related to cont...