Sentence examples for interrupt attention from inspiring English sources

Pain is known to interrupt attention.

Lack of motivation tends to interrupt attention to a task; a task in which perceptual focus frequently shifts rarely corresponds to one for which there is strong motivation.

Instead Butcher chose to remain at one of football's chillier outposts – the Caledonian Stadium sits on the shores of the Moray Firth and on winter days there is little to interrupt the attentions of a wind with roots in Siberia.

If sleep is interrupted, pay attention to the sleep cycle.

That person's night is interrupted by undesired attention.

They spoke little and only occasionally, in short sentences that never became conversation or dialogue, any hint of which died a natural death, interrupted by the attention that the woman was giving to her body, in which she was utterly absorbed, and by the indirect attention that the man, too, was giving to her body, through his camera lens.

It's the promise of instant communication at the cost of having attention interrupted and redirected.

Perhaps prompting players to think about certain unconscious actions and perceptions instills a 'verbal overshadowing effect' (Schooler, Ohlsson, & Brooks, 1993), where explicit attention interrupts critical, nonverbal processes involved in insight formation by attempting to propositionalize and verbalize them.

The survey in 1997 continues work begun in 1987-88 that was interrupted when our attention turned to large-scale excavations in 1989 and the analysis of the excavated materials in the following years.

When EM physicians are interrupted, they shift their attention from the primary task to the interrupting task (e.g., responding to a question from a colleague).

You can use this moment of gathering your attention to interrupt your assumptions and expectations and to allow yourself to relax and be present.