Before social cognition there is joint processing of information about the attention of self and others. This joint attention requires the integrated activation of a distributed cortical network involving the anterior and posterior attention systems. In infancy, practice with the integrated activation of this distributed attention network is a major contributor to the development of social cogn...

Over two decades ago, William Ocasio introduced the attention-based view (ABV) of firm with a powerful argument: firm-level behaviour is result situated distribution and allocation managerial attention, embedded in broader organizational structures environmental context. ABV-based research has received substantial increasing scholarly resulting complex incoherent body research. In order to addr...

objective: suicide rate is unfortunately increasing in recent years and its assessment is a must. most studies have evaluated different factors like personality, depression, or environment in suicide attempters but cognitive functions have been overlooked in suicide attempters. the current research aimed to evaluate a kind of cognitive function, namely attention in survivors of suicide.  method...

introduction: we hypothesized that inappropriate attention during the period of abstinence in individuals with substance use disorder can result in an inadequate perception of emotion and unsuitable reaction to emotional scenes. the main aim of this research was to evaluate the attentional bias towards emotional images in former substance abusers and compare it to healthy adults. methods: paire...

in schizophrenia, neurocognitive functions are one to two standard deviations below the normal controls and these deficits have a significant relationship with overall functioning and poor outcome. according to this fact, it is important to investigate the factors that effect neurocognition in schizophrenic patients. this study was carried out to demonstrate the relationship between attention/v...