Precue validity affects the performance of perceptual tasks. These spatial attention effects have been variously attributed to facilitation of processing, capacity allocation, or noise reduction. We used a new attention-plus-external (stimulus)-noise paradigm and model to identify the mechanisms of attention in cue-validity paradigms. A new phenomenon is reported: a large effect of location cue...

The study examined the generalizability of the learning advantages produced by instructions that induce an external relative to an internal focus of attention (e.g., Wulf, G., H oû, M., & Prinz, W. (1998). Instructions for motor learning: Di€erential e€ects of internal versus external focus of attention. Journal of Motor Behavior, 30, 169±179.) to the feedback provided to the learner. Four gro...

Research on motor-related attentional foci suggests that switching from an internal to an external focus of attention has advantageous effects on motor performance whereas switching from an external to an internal focus has disadvantageous effects. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neural correlates of switching the focus of attention. Two experimental groups were...

Studies investigating the influence of the learner’s focus of attention suggest that, in general, directing performers’ attention to the effects of their movements (external focus of attention) is more beneficial than directing their attention to their own movements (internal focus of attention). It has been shown that different attentional foci are associated with different motor control proce...

This study intends to emphasize the importance that external sources of pressure may have on the level of ICT involvement among small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Italy. While past research tends to prioritize the role of endogenous conditions for the adoption of information and communication technologies—that is, financial resources, organization conditions, management culture—the high dep...

2015 ii ABSTRACT Selective attention is comprised of two simultaneous processes—the inhibition of distractors and the focus of attention on target stimuli; yet, many existing selective attention measures only measure one aspect of selective attention. This leads to a high possibility of Type I errors as high interference control or high working memory capacity may be mistaken for high selective...