• Results of two studies reported here provide further evidence that the 'mere presence' of a cell phone may be sufficiently distracting to produce diminished attention and deficits in task-performance, especially for tasks with greater attentional and cognitive demands. (researchgate.net)
  • To compare visual attention performances and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) between subjects with subjective cognitive decline (SCD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and to discover neuronal substrates related to visual attention performances. (frontiersin.org)
  • Our report suggested that impaired sustained attention and vigilance to be an early cognitive marker in differentiating MCI from SCD, where MCI subjects had a longer HRT across all interstimuli intervals and more profoundly in later blocks. (frontiersin.org)
  • In their young adulthood, the cognitive performances of these individuals are often far above the average norm. (frontiersin.org)
  • As the expression paying attention suggests, when you focus, you're spending limited cognitive currency that should be wisely invested, because the stakes are high. (medium.com)
  • Humans are living longer today than at any other time in history, and attention is increasingly focused on problems that arise from improved longevity, including a progressive cognitive weakening over the course of aging. (jneurosci.org)
  • Executive function is a comprehensive term used to describe a collection of cognitive abilities including attention, problem solving, set-shifting, and working memory. (jneurosci.org)
  • The cholinergic neurotransmitter system is critically linked to cognitive functions including attention. (imtlucca.it)
  • Questions for Debra Brody, Lead Author of " Cognitive Performance in Adults Aged 60 and Over, NHANES 2011-2014 . (cdc.gov)
  • Our objective was to describe the cognitive performance, based on objective assessments, of U.S. adults aged 60 and over. (cdc.gov)
  • Cognitive performance has been evaluated periodically in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, but the assessment method and age group has not always been the same. (cdc.gov)
  • The report showed the wide range of cognitive performance among adults 60 and older in the U.S. Further examination of these data in relation to other medical conditions may provide insight in understanding how cognition changes as we age. (cdc.gov)
  • Do one thing at a time and avoid the trap of multi-tasking" which divides attention and other brain/cognitive resources. (cdc.gov)
  • although these types of selective attention are not necessarily mutually exclusive. (wikipedia.org)
  • The results suggest that enhancement or impairment of cholinergic activity preferentially influences the maintenance of selective attention (ie trials greater than 1). (imtlucca.it)
  • Moreover, effects of cholinergic manipulation depend on the selective attention condition (ie faces vs houses), which may suggest that cholinergic activity interacts with stimulus salience. (imtlucca.it)
  • we observed a deficit in attention that was apparent in middle-age animals. (jneurosci.org)
  • The DSM-5 criteria, in conjunction with a thorough clinical interview regarding daily functioning, are important in the diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), previously termed attention deficit disorder (ADD). (medscape.com)
  • The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved lisdexamfetamine dimesylate ( Vyvanse , Shire Plc) for maintenance treatment in children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). (medscape.com)
  • ABSTRACT To review the experience of a child psychiatric clinic regarding co-morbidity and treatment characteristics of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a retrospective study was done on patients under 19 years who were attending the clinic and were diagnosed with ADHD. (who.int)
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder cation and type of psychotherapy offered. (who.int)
  • Background Recovery after SARS-CoV-2 infection is extremely variable, with some individuals recovering quickly, and others experiencing persistent long-term symptoms or developing new symptoms after the acute phase of infection, including fatigue, poor concentration, impaired attention, or memory deficits. (medrxiv.org)
  • Attention and executive function deficits were apparent in middle-age animals observed as a decrease in choice accuracy, increase in omissions, and increased response latency. (jneurosci.org)
  • From Dapper Dan's iconic '80s creations to Kendrick Lamar's 2023 runway performance, hip-hop's influence and impact on style and fashion is undeniable. (grammy.com)
  • Crescendo moments like Kendrick Lamar 's performance at the Louis Vuitton Men's Spring-Summer 2023 runway show in Paris in June 2022 didn't happen without a storied trajectory toward the runway. (grammy.com)
  • Doja Cat performs her tracks "Attention," "Paint the Town Red" and "Demons" at the MTV VMAs 2023. (mtv.com)
  • Sabrina Carpenter gives a glittering performance of her tracks "Feather" and "Nonsense" at the MTV Video Music Awards Pre-Show 2023. (mtv.com)
  • Most Safety Practitioners would agree that the key challenge in maintaining sustainable safety performance is the mindfulness of employees, particularly operators. (schuitemagroup.com)
  • Mindfulness is purposefully paying attention to the entire experience of the present moment. (cdc.gov)
  • Mindfulness may improve driving performance, and can improve our safety at work and at home. (cdc.gov)
  • BLT was associated with improvement in sleep cycle consistency, arousal , attention and functional connectivity, but not sleep onset or duration (primary measures ). (bvsalud.org)
  • Subjects with MCI had a worse performance in all retrieval indices of verbal/nonverbal memory tests than those with SCD in the context of comparable general cognition and demographic status. (frontiersin.org)
  • We were also interested in finding out if the visual displays were removed, whether the children's attention would shift to another distraction, such as talking to their peers, and if the total amount of time they were distracted would remain the same," said Godwin, a Ph.D. candidate in psychology and fellow of the Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER). (psychologicalscience.org)
  • This shift of attention into the moment is by definition the opposite of having a result focus, because it implies a shift of attention from outcome into process. (schuitemagroup.com)
  • The second theory asserts that object-based attention can shift quicker within an object than between objects. (wikipedia.org)
  • The cue changed every 4-7 trials to instruct subjects to shift attention from one stimulus component to the other. (imtlucca.it)
  • Methods Forty-five participants, ages 18-70, (11 Long-COVID, 14 COVID, and 20 No-COVID) underwent behavioral testing with the NIH Toolbox Neuro-Quality of Life survey and selected psychometric tests, including a flanker interference task and the d2 Test of Attention. (medrxiv.org)
  • Many common practices come with a high price and low results, and many developers have begun using alternative methods to improve the performance of their server. (lifehack.org)
  • Evaluations demonstrated that attending to introductory sentences using bidirectional attention improves the performance of extractive summarization models [even when] applied to more generic form[s] of textual data. (venturebeat.com)
  • Research into object-based attention suggests that attention improves the quality of the sensory representation of a selected object, and results in the enhanced processing of that object's features. (wikipedia.org)
  • Three experiments conducted by Bao and colleagues have shown that the binding of different information to a single object improves the manipulation of that information within working memory, suggesting a relationship between outer visual attention and internal memory attention. (wikipedia.org)
  • With optimizing media buys and planning becoming a greater focus as the new year kicks off, marketers are increasingly turning to attention metrics to improve business outcomes. (mediapost.com)
  • DoubleVerify -- which focuses on digital media measurement, data and analytics -- on Wednesday announced it has received Media Rating Council (MRC) accreditation for its DV Authentic Attention metrics, an attention-based analytics and performance solution. (mediapost.com)
  • The accreditation includes the full set of display and video Authentic Attention metrics for desktop, mobile web, and mobile app. (mediapost.com)
  • When employees perceived that performance ratings did not accurately reflect their actual work performance, they reacted to performance reviews negatively. (naw.org)
  • If Instant File Initialization isn't turned on, the resulting growth can negatively impact performance and cause timeouts. (lifehack.org)
  • This is the first time the MRC has reviewed DoubleVerify's analytics beyond the viewability standard, and into viewable impression measurement performance. (mediapost.com)
  • Furthermore, additional research is needed to know what effect the classroom visual environment has on children's attention and learning in real classrooms," Fisher said. (psychologicalscience.org)
  • When employees perceived the performance review process as fair, even when review outcomes were unfavorable, they reacted to them positively. (naw.org)
  • The quality of supervisor-subordinate relationships influenced the outcomes of performance reviews. (naw.org)
  • If the supervisor shared performance ratings and feedback in a timely, candid, respectful and unbiased manner, supported by detailed explanations, then the employee perceived the process as fair and accepted the outcomes in a positive manner. (naw.org)
  • So, pay close attention to your employees' reactions to their performance review and the way your supervisors handle the review process and deliver the review outcomes. (naw.org)
  • Because outcomes are the focus of their attention. (schuitemagroup.com)
  • Mark Zagorski, CEO of DoubleVerify, believes that earning MRC accreditation for DV Authentic Attention has advanced the company's commitment to develop independent media quality and performance solutions that drive campaign outcomes for our global brand customers. (mediapost.com)
  • After categorizing COVID patients according to self-reported concentration problems, we observed declining performance patterns in multiple attention measures across No-COVID controls, COVID and Long-COVID groups. (medrxiv.org)
  • Conclusion This study provides convergent evidence that previous SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with impairments in sustained attention, processing speed, self-reported fatigue and concentration. (medrxiv.org)
  • In particular, already after a single dose, the intake of matcha had increased the work capacity of the people and, after twelve weeks of taking the green tea capsule, attention, concentration and performance were further increased. (naturallifeapp.com)
  • Retrospective Attention Interacts with Stimulus Strength to Shape Working Memory Performance. (ox.ac.uk)
  • There is little research on how stimulus strength during encoding shapes WM performance, and how effects of retrospective orienting might vary with changes in stimulus strength. (ox.ac.uk)
  • In Experiment 1 we show that benefits of cueing spatial attention retrospectively during WM maintenance (retrocueing) varies according to stimulus contrast during encoding. (ox.ac.uk)
  • However, once stimuli are supraliminal, performance is no longer influenced by stimulus contrast. (ox.ac.uk)
  • These results suggest that the processes by which retrospective attentional orienting shape WM performance are dependent on the quality of WM representations, which in turn depends on stimulus strength during encoding. (ox.ac.uk)
  • This object-based focus was extended, from Kahneman & Henik's leading question: "If attention selects a stimulus, what is the stimulus it selects? (wikipedia.org)
  • The findings are discussed within the context of the role of acetylcholine both in stimulus processing and stimulus salience, and in establishing attention biases through top-down and bottom-up mechanisms of attention. (imtlucca.it)
  • The current studies were designed to evaluate the effect of a cholinergic agonist and an antagonist on performance during a selective visual attention task where the inherent salience of attended/unattended stimuli was modulated. (imtlucca.it)
  • COVID participants, compared to No-COVID controls, exhibited worse performance on NIH Toolbox assessments, including the Eriksen Flanker, Nine-Hole Pegboard and Auditory Verbal Learning tests. (medrxiv.org)
  • The twenty-four chapters in Attention and Performance XVI look at how these influences are integrated in perception, attention, language comprehension, and motor control. (mit.edu)
  • Orienting attention retrospectively to selective contents in working memory (WM) influences performance. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Baseline assessments were made of actigraph-assessed sleep , attention , math solving ability , electroencephalography and structural and functional MRI (N = 10-11, pre-post). (bvsalud.org)
  • The behavioral results showed decreased performance on a variety of tasks. (bsu.edu)
  • The results were organized according to gender, frequency distribution of symptoms and characteristics of performance. (bvsalud.org)
  • This efficacy varies depending on the performance characteristics of the assay, the prevalence of infection, viral load kinetics, and pooling size, and strategy. (cdc.gov)
  • However, there are limited prospective data on assay-specific performance characteristics of pooled testing to guide implementation of such a strategy. (cdc.gov)
  • In this study, we aimed to evaluate the test performance characteristics of 1 laboratory-developed and 2 commercially available SARS-CoV-2 NAATs for 1,648 individual respiratory specimens prospectively grouped in pools of 8 and 4. (cdc.gov)
  • The first theory posits that visually perceived objects affect the distribution of conscious and unconscious attention. (wikipedia.org)
  • This suggests that the criteria applied to assess performance are defined in such a way as to require effort and attention for the person to be able to fulfill them. (schuitemagroup.com)
  • Three experiments were carried out to investigate the effects of dietary protein source on the metabolism and performance of straw fed, twin-bearing ewes in late pregnancy and early lactation. (open.ac.uk)
  • This has been one of the biggest challenges in developing MIPs for commercial applications in spite of their excellent recognition performances shown in lab experiments. (open.ac.uk)
  • But the most pleasing thing was that it was an impressive team performance. (irishtimes.com)
  • Despite not winning the competition, Archana Gautam's impressive performance on the show has earned her the admiration and respect of her fans. (sangribuzz.com)
  • That's why researchers from Pittsburgh and Microsoft Researcher's Future Social Experiences (FUSE) lab, which focuses on real-time and media-rich experiences, developed an AI system that pays close attention to the beginning of documents it's summarizing. (venturebeat.com)
  • A bachelor of music with an area of emphasis in performance provides an outstanding education along with rigorous training and performance experiences. (sc.edu)
  • This research evidence tells us that to increase the effectiveness of performance review, we need to expand our focus by elevating our awareness of perceptions and feelings of the system users (the supervisors and subordinates) and by paying closer attention to the quality of relationships between them. (naw.org)
  • 1 A classic example of a cuing study undertaken to evaluate object-based attention was that of Egly, Driver, and Rafal. (wikipedia.org)
  • The role of the anterior interhemispheric fibers in sustained attention implementation during visual signal detection task was highlighted. (frontiersin.org)
  • Even when a performance review system was acceptable by design, it was resisted or rejected by many users due to a lack of appropriate implementation. (naw.org)
  • In spite of this, we are achieving levels of human performance unlike any other time in history. (medium.com)
  • Bright light therapy and early morning attention, mathematical performance, electroencephalography and brain connectivity in adolescents with morning sleepiness. (bvsalud.org)
  • The current study uses an auditory oddball target detection task to detect attention in concussed and non-concussed collegiate athletes. (bsu.edu)
  • 4) increased dentate gyrus volume and (5) enhanced frontal connectivity with temporal, occipital and cerebellar regions during Go/No-Go task performance . (bvsalud.org)
  • Very little is known about how learners in different contexts pay attention to and process negative informative feedback, that is, constructive information to the learner regarding why, how, and to what extent she failed in solving a task or providing a correct answer. (lu.se)
  • The team says this approach improved experimental performance, particularly in the case of web forum content, as well as with more generic forms of textual data. (venturebeat.com)
  • Writing engaging content grabs the reader's attention which, in turn, persuades them to take action. (attentioninsight.com)
  • The way in which a supervisor delivered review results affected subordinates' perceptions of the entire performance review system. (naw.org)
  • Properly conducted performance reviews will motivate employees at all levels to assume responsibility for producing optimal organizational results. (naw.org)
  • Intensity of focus results in presence, and presence amplifies performance. (medium.com)
  • The obtained results strongly recommend that the experimental parameters used for polymerisations are well reflected in the physical make of the resulting polymers and have further consequences on their analyte recognition performance. (open.ac.uk)
  • The flow state results in peak performance, along with increased happiness and fulfillment on the job. (entrepreneur.com)
  • It addresses important aspects of the results of the biennial evaluation which should be brought to the attention of the Regional Committee. (who.int)
  • In this study, both movement form and outcome-based measures were used to assess the performance of a pirouette. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Exceed the mechanical bonds and typical performance in the productive phase giving form to aesthetical-functional requests with the use of highly innovative solutions by paying attention to cost reduction. (micromeccanica.it)
  • Consideration is then given to the enhancing effect of object-based attention on memory, and its inhibitory effect during certain kinds of visual search. (wikipedia.org)
  • An influencing element is that an object-like representation can engage attention even when it is not the intended target of a visual search. (wikipedia.org)
  • All subjects were further examined by the Conners Continuous Performance Test 3 (CPT3) and DTI including fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD), in which group comparisons and stepwise linear regression were made. (frontiersin.org)
  • Furthermore, there is little evidence on parallel test performance of different assays on pooled samples to direct choice of method. (cdc.gov)
  • The Digit Symbol Substitution test (DSST), a performance module from the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS III), relies on processing speed, sustained attention, and working memory (14). (cdc.gov)
  • They discovered some years ago that there are intriguing simi- larities (as well as differences) in the effects on performance of such apparently quite disparate factors as white noise, time of day, introversion-extraversion and incentive. (powells.com)
  • But matcha tea, thanks to the manufacturing process, develops a particular composition of substances that work in synergy to reduce the harmful effects of stress on the brain , increasing attention and performance. (naturallifeapp.com)
  • The primary focus of this proposal is to systematically investigate the effects of a number of learning context parameters on student's attention, processing, and responses with respect to negative informative feedback. (lu.se)
  • To accomplish this goal, organizations have heavily focused on improving the technical aspects of review (the process and measurement), while giving little attention to the social context of the performance appraisal (workplace relationship). (naw.org)
  • The third theory contends that there is greater interference of object-based attention when any flanking distractors (e.g., visual scene crowding or noise) are present. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the context of performance review, dissatisfaction indicates that employees' goals have not been fulfilled as reflected in the feedback they receive. (naw.org)
  • It stands to reason that the batsman will only bat well if he dedicates all his attention to the ball as it travels toward him and does his very best to engage that ball well. (schuitemagroup.com)
  • Instead, as far as matcha tea is concerned, this showed a lower ability than caffeine to reduce reaction times, but it acted effectively on attention and performance, despite the fact that stressful conditions had been induced. (naturallifeapp.com)
  • As part of the management team, supervisors and managers play a key role in influencing employees' perception and overall effectiveness of the performance review process. (naw.org)
  • The assessment of dancers' performance was quantified by (1) the variability of postural sway (VPS), (2) the duration of balance sustained (DOB), and (3) the quality of movement form (QMF) that was rated by qualified dance teachers. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Mental performance coaching by Ted Huang, 2x Olympian in windsurfing, former professional cyclist, M.A. in Sports Psychology. (tedperformance.com)
  • After nearly a decade of doing creative work for a living, I've found that activities requiring depth, focus, and attention produce a much higher ROI than those that require shallowness. (medium.com)
  • In this environment, online advertising is omnipresent, waiting for the moment to capture someone's visual attention through a sudden movement or a seductive motif. (lu.se)
  • Moreover, we guarantee an integrated management and the monitoring of all activities of the industrial process with reliability and attention to the tools of Development and workflow planning . (micromeccanica.it)
  • As movement designers, we encourage cross-pollination between artistic process and corporate structure by synthesizing exclusive performance activations into the startup and entrepreneurial culture. (thecollectiveattention.com)
  • With a strong emphasis on applying your music studies, this degree program provides excellent preparation for continued graduate studies and a performance or private teaching-oriented career in music. (sc.edu)
  • Particularly, the study of physical properties of the polymers and their influence on their analyte recognition performance is at the heart of all three case studies performed during this project. (open.ac.uk)
  • The aim of this work was to compare the performance of children, both genders and aged between 7-12 years, with and without complaints of difficulties in attention/ learning in tests of attention and executive functions. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, too much of a good thing may end up disrupting attention and learning in young children, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science . (psychologicalscience.org)
  • Research consistently demonstrates the active use of cell phones, whether talking or texting, to be distracting and contributes to diminished performance when multitasking (e.g., distracted driving or walking). (researchgate.net)
  • In this work, we introduce an alternative way to measure the level of press freedom using media attention diversity compiled from Unfiltered News. (aaai.org)