Increased attention enhances both behavioral and neuronal performance

H Spitzer, R Desimone, J Moran - Science, 1988 - science.org
… It is concuded that increasing the amount of attention directed toward a stimus can enhance
… Both our behavioral and neurophysiological results indicate that increasing the amount of …

Developing attention: behavioral and brain mechanisms

MI Posner, MK Rothbart, BE Sheese… - Advances in …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… This is reflected in evidence of increased connectivity between the dorsal ACC and auditory
areas when attending to speech, while a switch to visual input is reflected in increased

Distinct electrocortical and behavioral evidence for increased attention to threat in generalized anxiety disorder

A MacNamara, G Hajcak - Depression and anxiety, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Increased attention to threatening stimuli has been implicated in the development and … A
variety of behavioral studies support the notion that anxiety biases spatial attention toward the …

An overview of attention: behavior and brain

JM McDowd - Journal of Neurologic Physical Therapy, 2007 - journals.lww.com
attention in terms of facilitation and inhibition may increase … control attention comes into play
when more complex behavioral … there is evidence of the independence of the three attention

Behavioral approaches to the assessment of attention in animals

PJ Bushnell - Psychopharmacology, 1998 - Springer
evidence of a problem in sensorimotor integration of behavior, but provides little evidence
re… interpreted as a loss of attention to the light, because the drug increased the rats’ tendency …

The role of attention in motivated behavior.

G Suri, JJ Gross - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
… the effects of increased attention on real-… behavioral evidence that creates a through-line
from mechanistic lab-based accounts of attention and valuation to real world motivated behavior

More attention must be paid: the neurobiology of attentional effort

M Sarter, WJ Gehring, R Kozak - Brain research reviews, 2006 - Elsevier
… effort”, evidence is reviewed indicating that increases in the … of the neuronal circuitry mediating
increases in attentional effort. … of increased incentives, and that such increased workload …

Causes and consequences of limited attention

R Dukas - Brain Behavior and Evolution, 2004 - karger.com
… prey types, which involves increased probability of detecting that … Although selective attention
due to limited attention plays a … However, there is no evidence that selective attention by a …

Increased attention but more efficient disengagement: neuroscientific evidence for defensive processing of threatening health information.

LTE Kessels, RAC Ruiter, BM Jansma - Health Psychology, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
… In the present study, we sought evidence for the hypothesis that although high-threat
information might cause more attention capturing than neutral information because of its …

Enhancing attention through training

MI Posner, MK Rothbart, YY Tang - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2015 - Elsevier
… While there is evidence that self control score in childhood can predict adult performance
[21… reduce addiction by increasing self regulation. Other disorders involving attention may also …