The British conductor Jonathan Nott, who has been thriving as the principal conductor of the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra in Germany since 2000, and the gifted young Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen, who has been steadily gaining intentional attention for his thoughtful artistry, both made their debuts with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra on Tuesday night at Avery Fisher Hall.
Keeping sex hotter than a beach in the Caribbean requires intentional attention.
This can be called meditation practice, and includes the cultivation of mindfulness, a lucid moment-to-moment vigilant state of intentional attention.
Beside intentional shifts of attention toward task-relevant stimuli, attention can also be involuntarily captured by salient stimuli for instance due to their novelty or unexpectedness.
The current study investigated social anxiety and attentional control using two versions of a task designed to tap intentional shifting of attention and set switching: the standard Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST; Heaton, 1981) and a modified version that included emotionally salient pictorial stimuli, the Emotional Faces Card Sorting Test (EFCST).
That all rubbed me the wrong way; it seemed too intentional, bringing more attention to the underground explorer than to the old stream.
Results of this meta-analysis, along with the meta-analysis of violence against children with disabilities, provide evidence that injury prevention among children with disabilities, both unintentional and intentional injury, merits attention in the injury prevention field (Jones et al. 2012).
These findings suggest that task-irrelevant emotion information, particularly erotica, impairs intentional allocation of attention at early temporal stages, but at later temporal stages, emotional stimuli can have an enhancing effect on directed attention.
Endogenous orienting, on the other hand, is understood as a voluntary, intentional focus of attention to a specific location, usually guided by a symbolic cue (also referred to a goal directed, controlled, top-down) [10], [11].
Top-down intentional control of attention has definite limits, in that we find it difficult to actively attend to more than one thing at a time, although the ability to control attention and ignore distracters varies across individuals.
If intentional shifts of attention are initiated via the activation of specific saccade programs, as claimed by the premotor theory, similar lateralised components should also be triggered under conditions in which cues signal the direction of an upcoming eye movement, even when there is no incentive for strategic covert attention shifts towards the cued side.
