Research on the relationship between attention and the control of posture and gait is a new and expanding area with studies on young adults revealing the role of cognitive factors in the control of balance during standing and walking. The use of dual task paradigms to examine the effect of age related changes in attentional requirements of balance control and age-related reductions in stability...

Simultanagnosia is a disorder of visual attention resulting from bilateral parieto-occipital lesions. Healthy individuals look at eyes to infer people's attentional states, but simultanagnosics allocate abnormally few fixations to eyes in scenes. It is unclear why simultanagnosics fail to fixate eyes, but it might reflect that they are (a) unable to locate and fixate them, or (b) do not priorit...

Artificial agents engaged in real world applications require accurate resource allocation strategies. For instance, open systems may require artificial agents with the capability to filter out all information which are irrelevant with respect to the actual intentions and goals. In this work we develop a model of surprise-driven belief update. We formally define a strategy for epistemic reasonin...

EEG studies of cue-induced visual alpha power (8-13 Hz) lateralization have been conducted on young adults without examining differences that may develop as a consequence of normal aging. Here, we examined age-related differences in spatial attention by comparing healthy older and younger adults. Our key finding is that cue-induced alpha power lateralization was observed in younger, but not old...

I consider a flexible framework of strategic interactions under incomplete information in which, prior to committing their actions (consumption, production, or investment decisions), agents choose the attention to allocate to an arbitrarily large number of information sources about the primitive events that are responsible for the incompleteness of information (the exogenous fundamentals). The ...

This paper reviews the recent findings on working memory, attention and eye movements. We discuss the research that shows that many phenomena related to visual attention taking place when selecting relevant information from the environment are similar to processes needed to keep information active in working memory. We discuss new data that show that when retrieving information from working mem...

Whether a link exists between the two orienting processes of saccade preparation and visuospatial attention has typically been studied by using either sensory cues or predetermined rules that instruct subjects where to allocate these limited resources. In the real world, explicit instructions are not always available and presumably expectations shaped by previous experience play an important ro...

Spatial attention permits to allocate more processing resources to a restricted portion of the visual space. The influential premotor theory states that the allocation of spatial attention relies on the same processes as those responsible for programming saccadic eye movements. Accordingly, several studies have already demonstrated a close spatial correspondence between attention and saccades. ...

efficiency calculations for units belonging to one group according to data envelopment analysis widely have received attention; while experiences related to efficiency comparison of several groups consisted of decision making units is restricted. kao's parallel system network dea model that has been designated aimed at such a comparison, practically leads to accomplish comparison among uni...

Despite the growing research on financial resources within supply chain of SMEs, our understanding relationship between resource building efforts and availability remains lacking. This study draws attention-based view theory (ABV) to develop test an argument that heterogeneity in is explained by differences SMEs effort. The proposed tested a sample 274 owners Ghana. Structural Equation Modellin...