attention
            
            
            
                
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        used to describe any number of cognitive processes, organized as top-down or bottom-up, goal-directed or stimulus-driven, and more, but generally reflecting an interplay between cognitive and sensory systems.
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Asserted relationships to other concepts
            attention
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attention
                
                
                    
                    
                        
                        attention shift 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        motivational salience 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        selective attention 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        divided attention 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        auditory attention 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        passive attention 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        exogenous attention 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        sustained attention 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        visual attention 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        overt attention 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        covert attention 
                    
                
        
        attention
                are a part of
                
attention
                
                
                    
                    
                        
                        feature-based attention 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        object-based attention 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        attention capacity 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        attention span 
                    
                
                    
                    
                        
                        attentional focusing 
                    
                
                
            
attention
Tasks that are asserted to measure attention
| Task | Contrast Measure | 
| global-local task | 
                        
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| Mindful Attention and Awareness Scale | 
                        
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| Barratt Impulsiveness Scale | 
                        
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| Mindstrong for Regulation of Cognition | 
                        
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| P300 BCI | 
                        
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| Montreal Cognitive Assessment | 
                        
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| target detection task | 
                        
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| Distraction paradigm (capture) | 
                        
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| dual-task paradigm | 
                        
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| Spatial cuing paradigm | 
                        
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| adolescent symptom inventory | 
                        
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| numerosity estimation task | 
                        
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| dichotic listening task | 
                        
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| Color Trails Test | 
                        
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| immediate memory task | 
                        
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| delayed memory task | 
                        
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| digit cancellation task | 
                        
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Term BIBLIOGRAPHY
            
                A taxonomy of external and internal attention.
            
            
Chun MM, Golomb JD, Turk-Browne NB
Annual review of psychology (Annu Rev Psychol)
2011
            
                
            
        
    
        
        Chun MM, Golomb JD, Turk-Browne NB
Annual review of psychology (Annu Rev Psychol)
2011
            
                Dissociating the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex in cognitive control.
            
            
MacDonald AW 3rd, Cohen JD, Stenger VA, Carter CS
(Science)
2000 Jun 9
            
                
            
        
    
        
        MacDonald AW 3rd, Cohen JD, Stenger VA, Carter CS
(Science)
2000 Jun 9
            
                The attention system of the human brain.
            
            
Posner MI, Petersen SE
Annual review of neuroscience (Annu Rev Neurosci)
1990
            
                
            
        
    
        
        Posner MI, Petersen SE
Annual review of neuroscience (Annu Rev Neurosci)
1990
            
                Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain.
            
            
Corbetta M, Shulman GL
Nature reviews. Neuroscience (Nat Rev Neurosci)
2002 Mar
            
                
            
        
    
    
Corbetta M, Shulman GL
Nature reviews. Neuroscience (Nat Rev Neurosci)
2002 Mar
