Sentence examples for attend selectively from inspiring English sources

Our minds attend selectively to information that supports already existing beliefs, and to discount information that goes against our beliefs.

A fundamental characteristic of human hearing is the ability to attend selectively to one sound source in a mixture of many competing sounds.

ERPs (vMMN; visual N100 and P200) and motor indices of performance were extracted from an intermodal task, requiring participants to attend selectively to auditory targets presented within concurrent, non-overlapping oddball sequences of visual standard and deviant stimuli.

Even newborn infants are sensitive to visual stimulation and attend selectively to certain visual patterns; they will track moving stimuli with their gaze and can discriminate among lights that vary in brightness.

Previous research has examined our ability to attend selectively to particular features of perceptual objects, as well as our ability to switch from attending to one type of feature to another.

Findings of Nobre and colleagues [30] have provided evidence that we can attend selectively in the temporal domain, as we can in the spatial domain – we may choose to orient our attention to a certain instance in time, as we can do with regard to spatial locations.

A typical paradigm is to present participants with a cue indicating that they should attend to a specific feature of the upcoming stimulus, the upcoming stimulus then appears, the participant attends selectively to the task-relevant feature, and selects a response accordingly.

Human participants attended selectively to one of two lateralized visual-stimulus streams while task-irrelevant tones were presented centrally.

While subjects attended selectively to stimulus arrays in one visual field, fMRI revealed stimulus-related activations in the contralateral primary visual cortex and in multiple extrastriate areas.

Subjects attended selectively to one of two concurrently presented lateral visually-presented letter streams to perform a sequential comparison task, while ignoring task-irrelevant, centrally presented spoken letters that could occur synchronously with either the attended or unattended lateral visual letters and could be either congruent or incongruent with them.

As such, experimental training studies that manipulate the degree to which learners selectively attend to phonological and orthographic information reveal that this form of selective attention may be a key modulator of both functional reorganization of VWFA responses and success in reading acquisition (e.g., McCandliss et al. 2003b; Yoncheva et al. forthcoming).