Although research has found that long-term mindfulness meditation practice promotes executive functioning and the ability to sustain attention, the effects of brief mindfulness meditation training have not been fully explored. We examined whether brief meditation training affects cognition and mood when compared to an active control group. After four sessions of either meditation training or li...

The purpose of this paper is to call attention for the role of established technologies as an important source of continuous innovation. In order to get new insights of the subject we have studied some innovation strategies for the fluid power systems. Although radical innovation may gain more attention and investments, in the long term, incremental innovation will be the one to sustain the org...

Dyslexia and attentional difficulty have often been linked, but little is known of the nature of the supposed attentional disorder. The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART: Robertson, Manly, Andrade, Baddeley and Yiend, 1997) was designed as a measure of sustained attention and requires the withholding of responses to rare (one in nine) targets. To investigate the nature of the attention...

How do people learn and organize examples in the absence of a teacher? This paper explores this question through a examination of human data and computational modeling results. The SUSTAIN (Supervised and Unsupervised STratified Incremental Network) model successfully fits human learning data drawn from two published studies. The first study examines how correlations between features can facili...

background: deficiency of attention and concentration is one of great reasons of traffic incidents and it covers between 20 to 50 percent of events due to careless and mindedness. studies show that attention and concentration are considered as one of important cognitive components in safe driving. vibration is an important physical effect in all vehicles. till now has not been any organized stu...

Stability and flexibility are fundamental to an intelligent cognitive system. Here, we examined the relationship between stability in selective attention and explicit control of flexible attention. Preschoolers were tested on the Dimension Preference (DP) task, which measures the stability of selective attention to an implicitly primed dimension, and the Dimension Change Card Sort (DCCS) task, ...

Despite increasing attention on how community enterprises support well-being and public services, we know little about durable they are to sustain their activities. Previous research ...