Human migration, both voluntary and precipitated by conflict and persecution, continues to pose challenges to the healthcare infrastructure of host countries. The scale of international migration to Ireland has increased substantially in recent years. Both economic migrants and refugees have complex health needs including those related to infectious diseases, malnourishment, gender-specific iss...

Although there is strong evidence that human decision-making is frequently self-biased, it remains unclear whether self-biases mediate attention. Here we review evidence on the relations between self-bias effects in decision-making and attention. We ask: Does self-related information capture attention? Do self-biases modulate pre-attentive processes or do they depend on attentional resources be...

The image captioning task has attracted great attention from many researchers, and significant progress been made in the past few years. Existing models, which mainly apply attention-based encoder-decoder architecture, achieve developments captioning. These however, are limited caption generation due to potential errors resulting inaccurate detection of objects incorrect objects. To alleviate l...

Rain streaks and rain drops are two natural phenomena, which degrade image capture in different ways. Currently, most existing deep deraining networks take them as distinct problems individually address one, thus cannot deal adequately with both simultaneously. To this, we propose a Dual Attention-in-Attention Model (DAiAM) includes DAMs for removing raindrops. Inside the DAM, there attentive m...

Children on the autism spectrum often demonstrate atypical joint attention, leading some researchers to consider joint attention deficits a core feature of the autism spectrum. Structured measures, such as the Early Social Communication Scales (ESCS), are commonly used to provide a metric of joint attention. To explore the assessment of joint attention in multiple contexts, we implemented an al...

The relationship between the development of sustained attention and the ability to inhibit responding to external stimuli was investigated in seventy five children, 8, 10 and 12 years old. An important period in the development of both functions is between 8 and 10 years of age. A positive correlation was found between the number of signals detected (sustained attention) and the number of succe...