PURPOSE To investigate whether focused attention (FA) changes over time as sitting postural control improves and whether an impairment in sitting postural control affects the development of FA in children with cerebral palsy (CP). METHODS Nineteen children with CP, mean ages 21.47 months, were assessed for FA and sitting scores pre- and postintervention. RESULTS Longest, total, and global F...

several studies suggest that obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) is common among college students. therefore, identification of factors contributing to the symptoms of this disorder is considered one of the most important issues in the field of education. the purpose of this study is to predict the severity of ocd based on self-focused attention styles and sense of guilt in students. sample gro...

Meditation has been shown to aid with the management of affective disorders through improving emotion regulation. Here we begin develop a theory meditation by creating computational cognitive model focused attention meditation. Our was created within Prims, derivative ACT-R architecture. We implemented based on an extensive literature review how experience unfolds over time. then tested Prims i...

Objective: This study aimed to investigate the role of negative and positive affectivity, selffocused attention, and attentional control in social anxiety symptoms.  Methods: A sample of 382 students of Isfahan University was selected and the participants completed Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN), Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), Attentional Control Scale (ACS), and Focus...

This study compared focus attention and interpretation biases in social phobia patients and normal subject. In this study with causal- comparative method 100 subjects with social phobia and 100 normal individuals have compared. Subjects were selected through cluster sampling among Tabriz university students. Data scale of social phobia, attention bias and interpretation of the data was performe...