I was surprised at the results because the leading idea of how attention worked at the time was the "spotlight model"— that attention amplifies perception of everything within a certain limited zone of space.
Data mining amplifies perception in the business domain: Do the analysis and you'll know and understand more than you did before.
It also threatened to amplify perceptions among many voters that Mr. Bush was catering too much to his conservative base.
That prediction has amplified the perception among Mr. Schwarz's supporters that the prosecution's larger case to find other officers culpable in the Louima investigation has collapsed.
Moreover, State Department and aid agency officials said that distribution of aid under the direction of the military would amplify the perception that the American presence was an occupation.
Impact of an infectious disease on public health diagnostic health services may be affected by the volume of media coverage which can amplify risk perception and increase demand for services.
Air safety experts applauded the industry's effort to share ever more information about potential safety issues with the public, but they acknowledged that such transparency sometimes amplified the perception of risk and distracted attention from other areas of genuine concern.
This can be achieved, for instance, through the use of perspective in interior spaces (which amplifies the perception of the surrounding space), while at the same time conveying a sense of protection (reduced stress, Grahn and Stigsdotter 2010).
Through media placements and faculty speaking engagements, it amplified the perception of Carnegie Mellon's School of Engineering as not only an institution that attracts really smart students and professors, but also as a place that delivers "hot inventions and cool thinking" to transform lives, Finn says.
"What these guys did was take a mundane product and gave it a Scandinavian title to amplify consumers' perception of value, and take sexuality, sensuality and pleasure and tap in to the audience's psyche, and build a brand on to it.
First, it amplified the perception Sanders has been trying to create in which he paints Clinton has having a cozy relationship with Wall Street.
