In other words, we're not using our attentional powers well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Printing: Distracted-- the Coming of a New Dark Age; Rob Kall Interviews author Maggie Jackson] Reference

Did anyone check their reaction time and attentional abilities?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard C. Senelick, M.D.: When To Take The Keys Away From Your Aging Parent] Reference

Here are three powerful attentional practices to get you started.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Schwartz: The Death of Depth: Less and Less of More and More] Reference

For instance, effortful processes can be influenced by attentional resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

But, look, ADD is something that really is primarily an attentional disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2007] Reference

The "attentional blink" was first described by Raymond and colleagues in 1992.    From Wordnik.com.  [Srinivasan Pillay: Why Life Does Not Make Sense: Overcoming The Attentional Blink Through Meditation] Reference

I am an example of someone with "different" attentional mechanisms than most people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behavioral Genetics and the Single Economist, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

However, attentional factors do not seem to be at play during high arousal judgements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

Getting married requires a radical and permanent reorientation of attentional habits. p.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Workshop Before the Wedding] Reference

Getting older both reduces our attentional capacity and increases processing requirements.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvaro Fernandez: Why Do You Turn Down the Radio When You're Lost?] Reference

Initially skeptical, Monica's discovering that attentional blindness has become a teacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Cara Barker: 5 Steps to Get Your Life Back on Track] Reference

It has to do with showing a view, and a solution to our seemingly attentional disordered lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Warming is a Blessing] Reference

Hillman said the amplitude of the potential relates to the allocation of attentional resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physical Activity May Strengthen Children’s Ability To Pay Attention | Impact Lab] Reference

Automatic processing is fast and effortless because it is not subject to attentional limitations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

The current growth of multitasking, for instance, may help select for just such attentional agility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Success] Reference

There are obvious constraints on the allocation of attentional resources to different visual modules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cognitive Science of Art: Ramachandran's 10 Principles of Art, Principles 4-10] Reference

For good evolutionary reasons, there is a powerful attentional and even attractive component to fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-30] Reference

This is the antithesis of creative idea generation, which has a defocused attentional state at its core.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shelley Carson, Ph.D.: Temporarily Unplugged: A Good Idea to Foster Creativity?] Reference

Yet attentional restlessness can serve people well in environments that reward sensitivity to new stimuli.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Science of Success] Reference

Also, the more the brain's attentional center is activated when focusing on the pain, the greater the pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Srinivasan Pillay: Changing The Brain's Radio Station: From Suffering to Relief] Reference

In fact, many memory complaints may be actually depression - or fatigue-related reduced attentional capacity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvaro Fernandez: Why Do You Turn Down the Radio When You're Lost?] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It does work for many, if not all, normal, healthy people with normal attentional systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2008] Reference

How does cognitive therapy prevent depressive relapse and why should attentional control mindfulness training help?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mindfulness and task persistence: Not all self-awareness is a good thing] Reference

But on a serious note, I often wonder about the attentional and learning capabilities of the “iPod generation.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » O’Reilly: iPods Are Endangering America] Reference

As parents, Dr. Thompson claims that there are four things we can do to help children gain good attentional abilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [It’s a Boy! « Happy Healthy Hip Parenting] Reference

While my way of concentrating and thinking has some advantages, she is blessed with more typical attentional abilities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is it wrong for a disabled parent...] Reference

Same applies to any behavioral or attentional difficulty, including the decision to prescribe medication to address it.    From Wordnik.com.  [ADHD and standardized testing] Reference

We measure vision, for example, but completely ignore attentional control abilities, or a driver's useful field of view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alvaro Fernandez: Why You'll Need A Personal Brain Trainer] Reference

For the most part, automatic processes are not influenced by attentional resources though attention does impose some limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

This is likely to do the increase in difficult of the task, resulting in the increased allocation of attentional resources9.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-12-01] Reference

Either way, eye-blinks and "attentional blinks" mean that there is some period of time when we are missing seeing something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Srinivasan Pillay: Why Life Does Not Make Sense: Overcoming The Attentional Blink Through Meditation] Reference

The putative damage includes the inability to delay gratification, attentional deficits and a propensity for self-centeredness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stephen Josephson: Do Social Websites Hurt Kids' Brains? Give Me a Break!] Reference

MARTHA FARAH, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: It does work for many if not all normal, healthy people with normal attentional systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 10, 2008] Reference

A subsequent post tackles recent research on task interference in attentional control - the ability to coordinate mental resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: October 2006 Archives] Reference

Intentionality is an assignment (verbal or attentional) of a relation between the virtual models and the (hypothesized) real systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference

Are engaging TV or PC based paradigms likely to gauge the kind of loss of attentional control that has been suggested to underly ADHD?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: Electronic media causing ADHD?] Reference

Researchers have known that this "implicit attentional selection" is outside conscious control and that we are unaware of its functioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tech and Science and silly law enforcement] Reference