Sentence examples for attention able from inspiring English sources

One research team has determined that the nervous system of a dragonfly displays an almost human capacity for selective attention, able to focus on a single prey as it flies amid a cloud of similarly fluttering insects, just as a guest at a party can attend to a friend's words while ignoring the background chatter.

There is no distinct boundary between the perceived and the apperceived, and Wundt's analogy may be misleading[49] to the extent that it gives the impression of two separable forms of attention able in principle to subsist together simultaneously (that is, apperception focusing upon a point in the perceptual field while that field continues to be perceived).

Scott J. Phillpott of the Navy and Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer of the Army, whose recent comments first brought attention to Able Danger.

The Braves' Billy Wagner said: "It's good to see two guys in a division like a Heyward and Strasburg, with so much attention, be able to go, 'Hey, you know what?

Hoffman's first poetry collection, An Armada of Thirty Whales (1954), was followed by The City of Satisfactions (1963), Broken Laws (1970), The Center of Attention (1974), Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba: Selected Poems 1954 74 (1977), and Hang-Gliding from Helicon: New and Selected Poems, 1948 1988 (1988).

The AIE model is a sophisticated model of attention control, able to provide estimates based on a far more detailed simulation of human allocation of attention within a cognitive architecture.

The little girls listened with rapt attention, hardly able to stand the cliffhanger endings that picked up the very next evening, at bedtime.

Producers found that if the show's segments were sufficiently varied in character, content, style, pace, and mood, children's attention was able to be sustained throughout each episode.

If the strategy of a reset saccade to move left back into the scene from the rightmost border was adopted then attention was able to re-orient within the right hemifield but the left was severely neglected, as shown in figure 4b, in comparison to the scan path produced by the intact model in figure 4a.

Overall, these findings suggest that visual selective attention is able to modulate neural processing of object features independent of spatial processing, leading to the conclusion of a neuro-anatomical distinction of the 'what' and 'where' neural pathways [ 58].

This interpretation is in accordance with studies showing that directed attention is able to modulate the amplitude of late positivity (e.g., Ferrari et al., 2008; Hajcak et al., 2009; Schupp et al., 2007).