If you cannot focus on one thing at a time, or cannot maintain attention on one thing for as long as you want to, that is distraction.
It takes great training and effort to maintain attention on one object — in what Buddhists call concentration meditation — because the brain is highly susceptible to both voluntary and involuntary demands on its attention.
This would allow the pedestrian to maintain attention on the environment and their tasks (e.g. walking, talking, or work-related tasks), only cueing when and where appropriate.
Lastly, the Attention-Reinforcement task maintains attention on certain elements (or objects) of the image sequence that are of real interest.
These innovative approaches to navigation guidance are intended to help pedestrians maintain attention on the environment and active engagement in the spatial decision process and thus reduce the negative impact of turn-by-turn navigation on spatial memory formation.
This study, therefore, reminds the healthcare industry, government, and academia to maintain attention on these two factors.
Grasping requires processing of spatial location, in addition to form, orientation and size [ 27] and serves to draw attention to the object, which maintains attention on the task.
Mindfulness has been operationalized into two components: (i) maintaining attention on immediate experience and (ii) maintaining an attitude of acceptance toward that experience [ 10].
Each block was just under 10min in duration, and breaks were given between blocks to reduce fatigue and help participants maintain attention on the task.
Similarly, vigilance or sustained attention is described as the ability to maintain attention on a task for a period of time once the alert state is entered (Oken et al. 2006).
