Shifting of attentional focus within and about a visual display

the effects of multiple intelligences (focus on musical, visual, and linguistic) and direct instruction on learning grammar: a case on iranian efl students at elementary level

1.0 overview it seems that grammar plays a crucial role in the area of second and foreign language learning and widely has been acknowledged in grammar research. in other words, teaching grammar is an issue which has attracted much attention to itself, and a lot of teachers argue about the existence of grammar in language teaching and learning. this issue will remind us a famous sentence f...

Shifting visual attention and selecting motor responses: distinct attentional mechanisms.

Does shifting visual attention require the same central mechanism as that required for selecting overt motor responses? In Experiment 1, Ss performed 2 tasks: a speeded manual response to a tone and an unspeeded report of a cued target letter in a brief masked array. Stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between tone and array was varied. If the attention shift to the target was delayed by the first ...

The Effect of Attentional Focus on Gaze Behavior and Accuracy of Dart Throwing: The Attentional Task Demands Problem

Focus of Attention and Quiet Eye (QE) of the affecting variables on aiming task performance in recent decades have always been interesting for psychologist and sport science researchers. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of attention instructions on gaze behavior and accuracy of dart throwing of novice in low and high task load. In a semi-experimental design with re...

Spatial cuing in a stereoscopic display : Evidence for a “ depth - aware ” attentional focus

524 The degree to which visual information is processed largely depends on the amount of attention allocated to that information. A number of metaphors have been used to describe the spatial allocation of visual attention. One of the earliest metaphors for attention was a spotlight (Broadbent, 1982; Posner, Snyder, & Davidson, 1980; Shulman, Remington, & McLean, 1979). The spotlight view depict...

Symbology Location and Format on Attentional Deployment within a Cockpit Display of Traffic Information