Some techniques may fall under more than one category: Guided meditation is controlled focus if the instruction is, "Hold attention on your breath".
Some techniques may fall under more than one category: Guided meditation is controlled focus if the instruction is, "Hold attention on your breath". But if the instructor says, "Now just watch your thoughts, letting them come and go," then you're probably doing open monitoring--and your EEG would say for sure.
Automatic, which hold attention on some content by virtue of its affective or sensory salience.
By holding attention for hours on end, shows develop a level of intimacy and trust similar to a one-on-one meeting that scales far better.
But like the twin pictures of Malcolm X and Margaret Thatcher on Gove's office wall, combat can be relied on to hold attention.
It holds attention and disturbs.
His razor sharp focus held my attention on the edge of my seat.
In the neutral condition, participants were instructed to hold their attention on the fixation cross until one of the Gabor patches reversed color (16.7%).
In her second solo show Amy Gartrell is still struggling to evolve from an artist who stands out in group shows to one who can hold our attention on her own.
In more recent memory, Tina Brown hired big-name writers at vast expense, threw celebrity-strewn bashes to promote the magazine (all of which resulted in a rumoured loss of up to $20m annually) and was supposed to have rejected any story that couldn't hold her attention on the StairMaster.
The first episode of "Mrs. Eastwood & Company" has a loose, somewhat rambling quality, as if the producers were still feeling around for characters and story lines, and it goes through dull stretches because no one we see — including Dina — is quite vivid enough to hold our attention on her own.
