Sentence examples for voluntary attention from inspiring English sources

If this were the case also in humans with visual neglect, one might expect the drug to induce more effective allocation of voluntary attention to task-relevant target stimuli and, correspondingly, less involuntary attentional capture by the task-irrelevant (but visually salient) distractors, therefore making identification of correct items more effective.

The only politician who attracts voluntary attention.

Urban environments can certainly elicit involuntary attention (honking horns in Times Square), but they do so in a harsh, peremptory way that requires voluntary attention to override.

This study explored whether voluntary attention to emotion is distinguishable from involuntary attention to emotion.

Finally, participants completed a dot probe task intended to obtain a behavioral measure of voluntary attention to emotion.

As expected, dot probe emotional bias scores were associated with self-reported voluntary attention to emotion, but not with involuntary attention to emotion.

While controlled processing was thought to be voluntary, attention-demanding, and of limited capacity, automatic processing was thought to unfold without attention, to have nearly unlimited capacity, and to be hard to suppress voluntarily (Payne & Gawronski 2010; see also Bargh 1994).

"Voluntary attentional focus" is another way, corresponding to top-down attention modeled here.

When you cross a busy intersection or pore over a spreadsheet, you are depleting finite reserves of voluntary, directed attention.

In conclusion, by the use of a new paradigm we have estimated the time cost of voluntary spatial attention shift at 55 ms for across hemifields shifts and at 38 ms for within hemifields shifts.

In order to obtain a more direct evaluation of the time needed by voluntary spatial attention to shift independently of any additional perceptual, cognitive or motor parameter, we have used a modified version of the dual stream RSVP paradigm of Yantis et al. [16].