Attention was maintained throughout the duration of the training.
Attention was maintained during the event but was significantly lower prerally, though with considerable individual variation.
This also indicates that evaluation sessions for children should not be complicated, boring or long such that motivation and attention are maintained.
In the present study the attention was maintained directed at the targets for several seconds, allowing for the BOLD effect to build up.
Our computational model, described fully by Lanyon and Denham [8], [11], was inspired by seminal biased competition modelling by Deco [23], [24], and is depicted in figure 2. In addition to the overt shifts of attention previously modelling, we include here an extension to the model to allow covert shifts of attention where fixation is maintained at the centre of the display.
Modified implicit orienting paradigms [Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 32A (1980) 2; J. Exp. Psychol. Gen. 109 (1980) 160] are used in which cues elicit a shift of attention but gaze is maintained on a central fixation point.
For this reason, we extended the model to operate using covert attention in which fixation is maintained at the centre of the scene and the entire scene is present on the retina at all times but the focus of spatial attention moves.
Our findings indicate that focusing of attention by relative and absolute cues is maintained in self-motion, and that allocation of attention during movement is more viewer-centered than when observers are static.
However, the baseline versus follow-up comparison revealed that TMT-A scores were unaffected between the two time points regardless of care setting, indicating that visuospatial attention function was maintained over time.
Sustained attention, or vigilance, as it is more often called, refers to the state in which attention must be maintained over time.
