Browsing Arts (Faculty of) by Subject "attention"
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Anxiety and attention to threat: The psychometric properties of attentional bias scores
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-01)Attentional biases to threat are thought to play a central role in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders. Various measures have been developed to index these biases; unfortunately, the psychometric properties ... -
ATTENTION AND THE PARIETAL CORTEX: INVESTIGATIONS OF SPATIAL NEGLECT, OPTIC ATAXIA, AND THE INFLUENCE OF PRISM ADAPTATION ON ATTENTION
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-25)Some authors have argued that the primary function of the posterior parietal cortex is to control visual attention and awareness, whereas others have argued that the posterior parietal cortex is specialized for controlling ... -
Automaticity Revisited: When Print Doesn't Activate Semantics
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-16)It is widely accepted that the presentation of a printed word “automatically” triggers processing that ends with full semantic activation. This processing, among other characteristics, is held to occur without intention, ... -
Comparing the Estimation of Internally and Externally Defined Interval Durations
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-16)In this thesis I distinguish between two types of temporal intervals: internally-defined and externally-defined. Prior research on how humans estimate the durations of temporal intervals has been focussed almost entirely ... -
Conditional Probability in Visual Search
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)I investigated the effects of probability on visual search. Previous work has shown that people can utilize spatial and sequential probability information to improve their performance on visual attention tasks. My task was ... -
Deep, effortless concentration: re-examining the flow concept and exploring relations with inattention, absorption, and personality
(Springer, 2018-06-18)Conceptualizing the construct of flow in terms of ‘deep and effortless concentration’, we developed two measurement scales designed to index individual differences in flow during ‘internal’ tasks, such as thinking (deep ... -
Exogenous Cuing and Perceptual Matching Judgments of Orientation and Motion
(University of Waterloo, 2012-02-03)A series of experiments is described which uses a perceptual matching approach to study the effect of exogenous visual cues on perception of static and dynamic stimuli. Analogous experiments were carried out for orientation ... -
Grapheme-Colour Synaesthesia Influences Overt Visual Attention
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-17)Synaesthesia is a fascinating condition in which ordinary stimuli elicit extraordinary sensory experiences. For example, specific tastes may elicit unusual tactile sensations and standard black letters may elicit highly ... -
The influence of emotion and observer characteristics on attention
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-13)For decades, emotion researchers have debated a series of issues related to the influence of emotionally laden information on the way in which people process and remember information. The present investigation was designed ... -
The Influence of Emotional Context on Memory for Faces
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-29)The present thesis investigates whether the emotional background (context) in which a neutral face is viewed changes one’s memory for that face. In Experiment 1, neutral faces were overlaid centrally onto emotional (positive ... -
Investigating the relation between boredom and media multitasking
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-09)Media multitasking entails simultaneously engaging in multiple tasks when at least one of the tasks is based in media. Despite the abundance of research devoted to understanding the antecedents of media multitasking, little ... -
Long-Term Consequences of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Younger Adults on Cognitive Performance and Emotional Regulation: Comparisons with Older Adults
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI), are common and seemingly innocuous. However, even long after individuals experience a mTBI they often report psychological consequences such as fatigue, unstable mood, ... -
Mechanisms of the Aging-Related Positivity Effect in Memory and Attention
(University of Waterloo, 2012-05-16)According to the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (SST), the normal aging process is associated with a greater emphasis on self-regulation of emotional states, and this fosters a bias in cognitive processing for information ... -
Media multitasking and sustained attention
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-25)Media multitasking describes a common, everyday behaviour that involves dividing or switching attention between multiple sources of media-based information. In the work reported here, I investigate the relation between ... -
Non-erotic thoughts and sexual functioning in a community sample: Associations with thought content, affect and attentional control
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-28)According to Barlow’s model of sexual dysfunction (1986; Sbrocco & Barlow, 1996), anxiety in sexual situations leads to attentional focus on sexual performance at the expense of erotic cues, which compromises sexual arousal. ... -
'Oops! I can't believe I did that!' Inducing Errors in a Routine Action Sequence
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-21)‘What was I thinking ?!?’ – No matter age, intelligence or social status, we all experience moments like these. Perhaps it is walking into a room and forgetting what you went there to do or maybe failing to add sugar to ... -
Probabilistic Adaptation and Voluntary Attention
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-25)The following experiments considered the general phenomenon of behavioural adaptation in response to statistical regularities—which we refer to as probability learning (PL). In particular, these experiments focused on ... -
Reading aloud is not automatic: Processing capacity is required to generate a phonological code from print
(University of Waterloo, 2005)The process of generating a phonological code from print is widely described as automatic. This claim is tested in Chapter 1 by assessing whether phonological recoding uses central attention in the context of the ... -
Restoration of sustained attention following virtual nature exposure: Undeniable or unreliable?
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-14)Building on previous research examining the influence of natural versus urban images on attention, the purpose of the present experiments was to examine attention restoration with (1) two large samples, (2) a broader image ... -
Statistical learning in brain damaged patients: A multimodal impairment
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-19)Spatial neglect has mainly been described through its spatial deficits (such as attentional bias, disengagement deficit or exploratory motor behavior), but numerous other studies have reported non-spatial impairments in ...