directed attention
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdirectandattention
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direct
adjective
uk/daɪˈrekt/us/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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attention
noun[U]
uk/əˈten.ʃən/us/əˈten.ʃən/
notice, thought, ...
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(Definition ofdirectandattentionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Increased activity in human visual cortex duringdirectedattentionin the absence of visual stimulation.
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What kinds of language and non-linguistic experience are required to achieve a given level of ability in linguisticallydirectedattention?
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The sensitive caregiver can bridge the focus on physical reality and internallydirectedattention, sufficiently for the child to identify contingencies between internal and external experience.
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This included the introduction of new political management structures in local authorities but alsodirectedattentiontowards more participative forms of democracy, including deliberative forums.
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The right cortex is also specialized for globallydirectedattention, holistic analysis, and the processing of novel information.
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Perhaps most importantly, these questionsdirectedattentionto the issue of housing.
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Paus et al. (1997) propose that this overlap may reflect a 'supramodal' involvement of these networks in controllingdirectedattention.
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One can ask, for example, whether some modes of linguisticallydirectedattentionare acquired earlier than others.
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In both countries, recent political events havedirectedattention, once again, to the ability of governments to rule from the centre.
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New methods of analysis, focusing on price- and quantity-clearing computable general equilibrium models havedirectedattentiononce again to the issue of structural change.
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These statisticsdirectedattentionto an extraordinarily wide variety of accidents from tripping and falling to electrocution in the home to the dangers of working as a farmer.
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He set out extremely lucidly many of the main arguments anddirectedattentionto some of the issues which concern us all deeply.
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Many other people and medical officers of healthdirectedattentionto the same defects.
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Weights and measures men havedirectedattentionto these.
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Hedirectedattentionto the whole question from another point of view.
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I am not surprised that theydirectedattentionto the matter.
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The superstructure has nothing to do with this, and the argument to which hedirectedattentionwould not bear upon the point.
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