This study examined the effect of attention engagement to compound auditory-visual stimuli on the modification of the startle blink reflex in infants. Infants at 8, 14, 20, or 26 weeks of age were presented with interesting audiovisual stimuli. After stimulus onset, at delays defined by heart rate changes known to be associated with sustained attention or attention disengagement, blink reflexes...

One finding in attention research is that visual and auditory attention mechanisms are linked together. Such a link would predict a central, amodal capacity limit in processing visual and auditory stimuli. Here we show that this is not the case. Letter streams were accompanied by asynchronously presented streams of auditory, visual, and audiovisual objects. Either the letter streams or the visu...

Sust ained attention and vigilance are processeses that characterize attention, and are essential for the development of certain abilities Aim: a prospective study to propose a simple, easy and quick behavioral tool to support the assessment of sustained auditory attention. Material and methods: volunteer children aged between 6 and 11 years (139 female and 141 male) were selected. The test was...

BACKGROUND Sustained attention (SA) is important to task performance and development of higher functions. It emerges as a separable component of attention during preschool and shows incremental improvements during this stage of development. AIMS The current study investigated if auditory and visual SA match developmental level or are particular challenges for youth with DS. Further, we sought...

The co-existence of deficits in sustained and spatial attention in patients with acquired damage to the right cerebral hemisphere has led to the proposition that sustained attention could be a marker for left spatial inattention, or neglect. We investigated the possibility that reductions in leftward spatial attentional asymmetries could arise from individual differences in the capacity for sus...

Abstract This study investigated the role of lexical skills and executive functioning on L1 Dutch L2 English phonological awareness in children enrolled bilingual Dutch/English kindergarten The Netherlands (n = 95) monolingual (n = 83). Participants had an average age 5 years 10 months completed tasks awareness, (vocabulary specificity), (sustained visual auditory attention, behavioural self-re...

The relationship between sustained attention, attentional selectivity, and capacity Laura P. McAvinue a , Signe Vangkilde b , Katherine A. Johnson a , Thomas Habekost b , Søren Kyllingsbæk b , Ian H. Robertson a & Claus Bundesen b a Institute of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland b Centre for Visual Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, De...

Two fundamental research questions have driven attention research in the past: One concerns whether selection of relevant information among competing, irrelevant, information takes place at an early or at a late processing stage; the other concerns whether the capacity of attention is limited by a central, domain-general pool of resources or by independent, modality-specific pools. In this arti...

background: this study assessed the relationship between working memory capacity and auditory stream segregation by using the concurrent minimum audible angle in children with a diagnosed auditory processing disorder (apd). methods: the participants in this cross-sectional, comparative study were 20 typically developing children and 15 children with a diagnosed apd (age, 9–11 years) according t...

Abstract Arguably, automation is fast transforming many enterprise business processes, operational jobs into monitoring tasks. Consequently, the ability to sustain attention during extended periods of becoming a critical skill. This manuscript presents Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) prototype which seeks combat decrements in sustained tasks within an system. A brain-computer interface system us...