focal attention
collocation in Englishmeaningsoffocalandattention
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focal
adjective
uk/ˈfəʊ.kəl/us/ˈfoʊ.kəl/
central ...
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attention
noun[U]
uk/əˈten.ʃən/us/əˈten.ʃən/
notice, thought, ...
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(Definition offocalandattentionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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One possibility is that the capacity offocalattentiondiffers for simultaneously available elements arrayed in space, and for representations encountered over time.
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Identifying sources of activation, examining the role of activated procedural knowledge, and studying working memory development are central issues in modelling capacity-limitedfocalattention.
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For example, movement attracts human vision, guiding the direction offocalattention, as do other salient features.
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Likewise, the effects of prototypicality and automaticity may become weaker on tasks that allowfocalattentionto form.
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We can think of objects of attention as either causes attracting attention, or effects, that is, products offocalattention.
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If we construe in this manner working memory and its relation to the capacity-limitedfocalattention, then we can ask further questions.
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This way of expressing it seems to me to depart from the useful distinction between preattentive processes andfocalattention.
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Grunts then accompany acts offocalattention, followed by grunts that are communicative, but not yet referential.
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However, recall performance is determined by a confluence of factors other than the capacity offocalattention.
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Measures of retrieval indicate that we are only able to maintain one temporally extended event or epoch infocalattention.
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This level processes segmented objects forfocalattentionand subsequent analysis.
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He does acknowledge that a person can register information withoutfocalattentionor awareness.
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The claim thatfocalattentionis distinct from more passive memory representations implies that information in focal attention is accessed more immediately than information in a passive state.
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Thus, in any intervention programme,focalattentionshould be on the most heavily infected, which in most endemic communities comprise persons up to 30 year of age.
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Cowan forwards, as an estimate of the capacity offocalattention, findings that the number of recalled items often converges on 3-4.
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Duncan's subjects gave judgements about what was in theirfocalattention.
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What the dorsal stream delivers, very fast, is information about the egocentric location of an object, which triggers motor responses resulting in the orientation offocalattentionto the object.
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Cowan presents a diverse array of evidence to support the claim that thefocalattentionhas a capacity of 3 - 4 chunks.
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Hurford furthermore suggests that the objects that subsequently are indexed attract attention, treating them as causes offocalattention.
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