Experience, habit and attention.

The attention habit: how reward learning shapes attentional selection.

There is growing consensus that reward plays an important role in the control of attention. Until recently, reward was thought to influence attention indirectly by modulating task-specific motivation and its effects on voluntary control over selection. Such an account was consistent with the goal-directed (endogenous) versus stimulus-driven (exogenous) framework that had long dominated the fiel...

Experience - driven and goal - driven attention 1

Our visual system is highly sensitive to regularities in the environment. Locations that were important in one’s previous experience are often prioritized during search, even though observers may not be aware of the learning. In this study we characterized the guidance of spatial attention by incidental learning of a target’s spatial probability, and examined the interaction between endogenous ...

Breakfast eating habit and its influence on attention-concentration, immediate memory and school achievement.

OBJECTIVE To study the relationship of breakfast to the attention -concentration, immediate recall memory, nutritional status and academic achievement of school children. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Two schools catering to middle class families in Hyderabad city. METHODS 379 urban 11 to 13 years old school children studying in 6th, 7th and 8th grades. Data collected in a single ...

Attention, polychronicity, and expertise in prospective memory performance: Programmers' vulnerability to habit intrusion error in multitasking

The paper examines prospective memory (ProM) in programmer multitasking and reports administration of a naturalistic atypical action. The study emphasizes on how attention, time orientation, and expertise affect ProM performance in multitasking among a group of computer science and engineering students (N=108). The results suggest that attention play a crucial role in multitasking and ProM perf...

Crystal Habit Modification Using Habit Modifiers