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Later on, by the end of the first year, a second attentional system, the executive attention system, emerges.
The IPS and FEF form the dorsal attention system that is considered to underlie attentional target selection.
This includes behavioral data that supports the hypothesis that mindfulness practice leads to efficiencies in the dorsal attention system involved in voluntary top-down attentional selection, as well as indicating that retreat practice develops and encourages the emergence of receptive attention (i.e., improved alerting), which corresponds to the ventral attention system [ 40].
"He was falling apart in terms of his attention system," Basner said.
The mammalian attention system is perhaps the most efficient and precisely tuned junk filter we know of, refined through millions of years of annoying siblings (and some evolution).
And if what we're doing is unpleasant or dull – so you're already having to force your attention to stay fixed on it – the unconscious attention system is even more potent.
The trouble is, while our conscious attention is focused on the task in hand, the unconscious attention system doesn't shut down; it's still very much online, scanning for anything important in your peripheral senses.
The results support Posner and Peterson's [1990. The attention system of the human brain.
Attention system abnormalities represent a significant barrier to scholastic achievement in children with neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1).
We also empirically verify that the attention system outperforms an undirected approach even with a significantly lower number of foveations.
It is shown that peripheral neurons with higher firing rates are selected preferentially by the attention system.
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