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Executive function (EF) was measured using the "Trail Making" test (Reitan, 1986), which measures 'set-shifting', or the ability to shift attention between one task to another.
That is, more time is required to shift attention between stimuli.
The present study addresses the possibility that the cholinergic agonist nicotine could improve performance on a task testing the ability to shift attention between sensory modalities under both normal and pharmacologically impaired conditions.
Finally, the domain of rerouting is referring to the capacity to shift attention between different response sets.
In complex blocks, every few trials the border color changed, constituting a shift trial, where subjects had to shift attention between stimulus dimensions.
The third subtest, Receptive Attention, is a two-page subtest that measures the ability to focus and then shift attention between different stimulus dimensions under time pressure.
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The amount of attentional modulation resulting from shifting attention between preferred and non-preferred stimuli in the receptive field is greater than directing attention toward or away from a single stimulus in the receptive field.
Hampshire and Owen (9) examined EDS with a functional magnetic resonance imaging task in which the subjects repeatedly shifted attention between stimulus dimensions, thus disambiguating the attentional shift from learning how to solve the problem.
And shifting attention between the two disks made the spinning disk seem to behave even more erratically, the researchers report online today in PLoS ONE.
On a large display featuring numerous aircraft on the radar, as well as a list of associated parameters, shifting attention between all areas of the screen can be effortful and items or events that are further away from the point of gaze are more likely to be missed (one factor of the eccentricity parameter of NSEEV; Steelman et al., 2011, 2013).
The finding that performance decreases as somatotopic distance increases is open to other interpretations: for example, one might posit difficulty in shifting attention between fingers.
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