Sentence examples for reducing attention from inspiring English sources

And we ask if Google is making us stupid – or at any rate whether networked technology is reducing attention spans, devaluing memory and blurring the line between making online connections and forming real relationships.

It has been successful in reducing attention biases and anxious symptoms in social anxiety and generalized anxiety, but not yet in specific fears and phobias.

By this account, playing the game is more exciting than watching videos of the same scenes and the elevated arousal might increase attention to threats, reducing attention to peripheral stimuli and reducing change blindness.

Somewhere between the Internet destroying long-form journalism by erasing revenues and reducing attention spans, it has made in-depth narrative reporting popular again.

Affect also has to be taken into account; indeed, depression and anxiety have a negative influence on gait, possibly by reducing attention to gait control [ 17].

Johnson et al. [ 52] suggest that "providing information about a particular issue…can have unintended consequences such as reducing attention about important issues…or increasing focus on only a single corrective action" (page 499).

Results provide some support for the effectiveness of this parenting program for reducing attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms and associated problems in preschool-aged children.

An alternative proposal might be that the distribution of attentional resources, when multiple plausible AV pairings are possible, reduces attention to a given stimulus, thus diminishing the 'unity assumption' for a given AV pair.

Franz Exer, a police officer who led the first rescue team into the St . Gotthard Tunnellast week, said signs of strain have been evident for a long time: heavier congestion, reduced attention to speed limits and sloppier driving habits.

Bhangu recalled occasionally considering cutting his hair – as some Sikhs do in order to reduce attention or harassment – but never did, even when a high school classmate of his called him a "fucking Iraqi" out the window of a car.

Moments after signing the bill, Mr. Bush announced he would sign a major arms reduction agreement with Russia, news that was certain to reduce attention to the farm bill.