The phrase "an active attention" is not correct in standard written English.
The correct expression would be "active attention" without the article "an."
Example: "The teacher emphasized the importance of active attention during lectures to enhance learning."
Alternatives: "focused attention" or "engaged attention."
It takes mindfulness--an active attention to notice that your mind has drifted, and a mental effort to end that reverie and go back to the breath.
Perhaps there is an interaction between the active attention training and the mild anxiety that participants with social anxiety probably feel when they come to a university clinic to do their training (cf).[ 49].
As expected, the active attention conditions activated components of the well-described "attention network," as compared with the neutral baseline.
Jonathan Franklin's long piece on Salvador Alvarenga, an extract from his novel 438 Days, has ratcheted up an extraordinary 148,000 hours of active attention time since its launch in November, but doesn't appear anywhere in the top 20 for page views.
Active attention to a designated side of the stimuli (relative to passive-viewing conditions) resulted in an enhanced ERP positivity (P1 effect) from 80-150 msec over occipital scalp areas contralateral to the direction of attention.
In PET scans, active attention vs. passive showed strong activation in the contralateral dorsal occipital cortex, thus following the retinotopic organization of the early extrastriate visual sensory areas, with some weaker activation in the contralateral fusiform.
This cortical region has been implicated in processing pain and in particular, in reorienting brain activity between resting 'default mode' and active attention to salient stimuli (Kucyi et al., 2012; Bray et al., 2015).
A theme needs two things: firstly, your active attention of the thought process which attaches you to it, and secondly, your interest in exploring it, which locks you in so be attentively mindful and selective.
