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CONCEPT
attentional focusing
The ability to focus attention on cues in the environment that are relevant to the task in hand; can also include suppression of distracting stimuli

Classified under Attention
Definition contributed by RPoldrack about two months ago.

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Task Contrast Measure
meditation task
    		 
    Eriksen flanker task
      		 
      WISC-R Mazes
      • participant score minus average score
      		  
      Posner cueing task
      • congruent response time - uncued response time
      		  
      operation span task
      • operation span of participant minus average operation span of controls
      		  
      MicroCog
      • subject score minus population-matched average score
      		  
      fixation task
      • fixation time below maximum degree of eye movement
      		  
      continuous performance task
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      NPicchetti Initial definition retrieved from http://www.answers.com/topic/attentional-focus
      about one year ago

      Revision 4

      Definition contributed by CWhite about ten months ago:
      The ability to focus attention on cues in the environment that are relevant to the task in hand; can also include suppression of distracting stimuli

      Revision 3

      Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago:
      The ability to focus attention on cues in the environment that are relevant to the task in hand.

      Revision 2

      Definition contributed by BGregory about two years ago:
      The ability to focus attention on cues in the environment that are relevant to the task in hand. (from www.answers.com)

      Revision 1

      Definition contributed by SAdministrator about three years ago:
      No definition submitted yet

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      Term Event Log


      2012-03-28 RPoldrack: RPoldrack updated the definition for attentional focusing
      2011-08-15 CWhite: Added supporting citation.
      2011-08-15 CWhite: CWhite updated the definition for attentional focusing
      2011-05-04 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for attentional focusing. [view the changes at http://cognitiveatlas.org/term/attentional_focusing]
      2011-05-04 NPicchetti: Added new topic to discussion
      2010-07-17 BGregory: BGregory updated the definition for attentional focusing. [view the changes at http://www.cognitiveatlas.org/term/attentional_focusing]
      A psychophysiological investigation of the continuous flow model of human information processing.
      Coles MG, Gratton G, Bashore TR, Eriksen CW, Donchin E
      (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform)
      1985 Oct
      Open Abstract | Citation Profile



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