attentional focus

collocation in English

meaningsoffocus

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focus
noun
uk
/ˈfəʊ.kəs/us
/ˈfoʊ.kəs/
the main or central point of something, especially of attention ...
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(Definition offocusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The second type of construal important to the argument of this article concerns selection ofattentionalfocus, which makes certain aspects of meanings salient.
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Another measure - a posttreatment, retrospective questionnaire - was also used to probe theattentionalfocusof the subjects during the treatment.
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To interpret others'attentionalfocus, blind children depend primarily on auditory and tactile information.
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For example, directives are coded within their social context, so directives following a child'sattentionalfocusare distinguished from directives redirecting the child's attention.
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When people encounter sequential material, the most simple assumption is that eachattentionalfocusembraces a small number of contiguous elements.
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The general slowing of responses, instead, is often interpreted as response inhibition and a lack ofattentionalfocus.
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Converging evidence of this kind would provide most valuable to support for assumption of a unitary capacity limitedattentionalfocus.
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Any information within this window ofattentionalfocusis fully activated and fully accessible.
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The coder subsequently waited until a change inattentionalfocusoccurred in the target child for longer than 3 seconds.
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At the onset of each condition, infants'attentionalfocuswas recorded to be either toward person, toy or other.
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Chunking, we contend, is a ubiquitous phenomenon, due to the intrinsic constraints of attentional processing, with each chunk corresponding to oneattentionalfocus.
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As a consequence, it is highly probable that "cat" rather than "look" enters into the momentaryattentionalfocus.
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Pauses, in fact, partly determine the content of theattentionalfocus, because attention naturally gathers events in close temporal proximity.
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Their findings provide support for the notion that sensitivity to children'sattentionalfocusis a key aspect of maternal directiveness.
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Developmental changes in pointing as a function ofattentionalfocus.
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Secondly, the category of attention-focusing events included both events that led and events that followed into the child'sattentionalfocus.
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The distinction between coordinated and passive joint engagement is the child's behavior, that is, the active monitoring of the adult'sattentionalfocus.
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First, it needs to be clarified what exactly the nature of the elements (chunks) within theattentionalfocusis.
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Like most connectionist models, this one requires neither conscious awareness nor explicitly built-inattentionalfocus.
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The critical importance ofattentionalfocusin this model is extremely interesting.
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