Multimodal Intervention Programme for the Improvement of Attention Deficits

stimulus selection (Broadbent, 1958; Treisman, 1960; Hoffman, 1986) and limited resources models (Kanheman, 1973) to the more current activation models (Toomin, 2000; Angelakis, Lubar & Stathopoulou, 2004). These new models do not share the traditional idea of limited attentional capacity, since attention, on working as an active and constructive mechanism, is modified with practice, so that subjects generate their own attentional potential. Such potential will be determined not only by cognitive elements, but also by conative and affective elements, whose interaction is described in the first neoconnexionist model of attention (Phaf, Van der Heijden & Hudson, 1990), the Slam model, which demonstrates changes in attentional capacity through continued practice. Such changes occur in processes of both selective and sustained attention.