The phrase "a sustained attention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the ability to maintain focus on a task or subject over a period of time.
Example: "In order to excel in this field, one must develop a sustained attention to detail."
Alternatives: "prolonged focus" or "continuous concentration".
To this end, participants were first mentally fatigued by performing a sustained attention test; then they viewed photographs of restorative environments, nonrestorative environments or geometrical patterns; and finally they performed the sustained attention test again.
Such tasks include the 5-choice serial reaction (5CSR) task, first developed by Robbins and colleagues [24], and a sustained attention task validated by McGaughy and Sarter [25].
We thus employ the quadratic surface used in previous research [26], [34], [35], [38], [39] as a means of capturing the combined effects of spatial and temporal stimulus uncertainty on RT and fixation durations during a sustained attention task.
Here we test the hypothesis that cocaine addicted subjects will have disrupted functional connectivity between the midbrain (where dopamine neurons are located) and cortical and subcortical brain regions during the performance of a sustained attention task.
Here, we addressed this using a sustained attention task adapted for functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Lichen sclerosus is the most current vulvar dermatosis in elderly and often easy to treat, requiring a sustained attention.
Sixteen adult patients with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and 16 matched healthy control subjects were positron emission tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scanned and tested on a computerized sustained attention task after oral methylphenidate (0.5 mg/kg) and placebo administration in a within-subject, double-blind, cross-over design.
Attention was assessed via the age-normed Total Correct z-score on the computerized Gordon Diagnostic System, a validated sustained attention test [14].
The present experiment was designed to test the effects of incorporating a retention interval in a two-lever sustained attention task that requires discrimination of visual signals and non-signals and that has previously been shown to yield valid measures of attention in the rat.
Nevertheless, to make a stronger case for a deficit of sustained attention in neglect patients it would be important to demonstrate more than simply an overall deficit in performance.
In an era when readers seem more fickle than they ever have been, a newsletter's audience is a model of sustained attention.
