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CONCEPT
visual attention
two-stage process in which attention is distributed uniformly over the external visual scene and processing of information is performed in parallel, attention is then concentrated to a specific area of the visual scene (i.e. it is focused), and processing is performed in a serial fashion.

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Definition contributed by BGregory about ten months ago.

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Task Contrast Measure

visuospatial cueing task
  • reaction time to incongruent cues minus reaction time to congruent cues
 

Visual Pursuit/Tracking
  • d' (difference between correct identifications and false alarms)
 

Visual Distractor/Visual Attention
  • reaction time after some manipulation minus reaction time at baseline
 

Rapid Serial Object Transformation
  • ERP strength minus baseline
 
  • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
 

Fixation Task
  • degree of eye movement
 
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NPicchetti Initial definition retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention
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Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago:

two-stage process in which attention is distributed uniformly over the external visual scene and processing of information is performed in parallel, attention is then concentrated to a specific area of the visual scene (i.e. it is focused), and processing is performed in a serial fashion. (from Wikipedia)

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Definition contributed by SAdministrator about two years ago:

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