All this promotes attention, and makes introspection difficult, which is rather the point.
Animal studies reveal that the amygdala promotes attention and emotional memory, in part, by driving activity in downstream target regions including the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus.
Together, these findings suggest that nicotine reduces the distraction by emotionally negative and smoking-related stimuli and promotes attention to task-related stimuli by modulating somewhat lateralized and task-specific neural networks.
It increases the excretion of calcium and promotes attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder in some children.
· How fear and anxiety promote attention and protective behavior.
Interest and joy towards some particular issue − classroom activities, for instance − promote attention, recall, effort, and achievement (Ainley et al. 2002; Hidi & Renninger, 2006).
Although many concerns articulated under the rubric of public health ethics focus on the problems of the West, one arm of discourse has promoted attention to developing country issues like infant mortality and access to essential medicines.
The cholinergic system's function in promoting attention, alertness, and learning has classically been attributed to acetylcholine and its action as a diffuse volume transmitter, affecting cortical activity at relatively slow time scales.
For example, if detecting the presence of a possible imminent danger is the current goal (rather than another task), then we would expect that top-down resources would be directed towards that goal, strengthening representations of threat cues and promoting attention to them.
However, the abundance of options available online, along with a new infrastructure promoting attention-grabbing partisan articles, may exacerbate polarization.
Other candidates have also balked at promoting attention-getting proposals that would fundamentally remake existing policies, even when they broadly support them.
