At ages five and six, children may have difficulty attending to the level of verbal information that their peers do, and that can result in "acting out" or problem behaviors.
Conventional maintenance practice has difficulty attending to the deterioration of existing infrastructure systems that has been occurring intensively (Miyamoto and Isoda 2012).
We hypothesized that these individuals' failure to maintain perceptual continuity of the tone was due to some kind of interference between the neural representations of tone and the noise, leading to difficulty attending to the tone during the noise.
Nevertheless, only four of the eight monkeys were consistently successful in this condition, which further supports the hypothesis that the monkeys had difficulties attending to the temporal sequence of the events.
In light of these observations, the inverse association between age and task performance can be explained, in the case of older seniors, by a difficulty in attending to the tactile stimuli as the finger moved over the surface.
In this paper we describe the notion of a 'mental picture' as an outcome of situation awareness, how an awareness of the situation is developed and maintained, the cues allocators attend to, and the difficulties they face in doing so.
Previous research suggests that older adults may have difficulty attending to simultaneous tasks.
Camera shyness and instructor difficulty attending to students simultaneously at origination and distant sites can also make interaction difficult [ 15, 24].
It is clear that the staffing shortage can have an impact on care, which could result in difficulties in attending to obstetrical complications, less time to perform tasks, compromised quality of care, and difficulty in reducing maternal mortality.
This kind of excessive and unfocused internal mental activity is often associated by people with the tendency to talk over or interrupt people or their difficulty in attending to what people are saying to them, including following simple instructions.
Particular difficulties in attending to more than one voice at a time were reported by eleven participants.
