Science news articles about 'visual attention'

  • How video games stretch the limits of our visual attention

    ... and non-gamers had to perform tasks related to visual attention and found that gamers consistently outperformed their non ... the benefits. This finding that video games can enhance visual attention abilities may have implications for military training ...
  • Sleep-deprived brains alternate between normal activity and 'power failure'

    ... function, but these periods are interspersed with severe drops in attention and visual processing. This study shows what ... imaging, participants did a task that required visual attention. Researchers showed them large ...
  • 1 sleepless night increases dopamine in the human brain

    ... how tired they were and did cognitive tasks testing visual attention and working memory. The researchers used the imaging technique positron emission tomography to study the changes ...
  • Measuring the auditory dynamics of selective attention

    ... auditory stream led to refinements in selective attention over time. This improvement over time depended on the perceived ... ," the study concludes. "In addition, these results may have implications for visual attention in tasks where object formation ...
  • Looking vs. seeing

    ... , we can smoothly track a large airplane, with all its intricate visual details, by directing our gaze at its center," explains ... the role of the SC in non-motor functions such as visual attention and the functional links between motor control ...
  • Car or pedestrian -- How we can follow objects with our eyes

    ... . Sensitivity control also exhibits interesting parallels to visual attention control, for which the FEFs are also important. Therefore, it can very well be regarded as an attention mechanism within the eye tracking system ...
  • DVR fast-forwarding may not be fatal to TV advertising

    ... Through Fast-Forwarding: Brand Information and Visual Attention." Fast-forwarded commercials containing ... of the play-back removes visual cues and motion that attract attention to brand images that lay ...
  • Hands-free cell phone conversations add 5 m to drivers' braking distances

    ... at the effect the hands free telephone conversations had on visual attention if the phone conversation was skewed to a more passively ... is not enough to eliminate significant impacts on a driver's visual attention. Generating responses for a conversation competes ...
  • Low-carb diets can affect dieters' cognition skills

    ... , long-term and short-term memory, and visual attention, and spatial memory. The first session ... high in protein or fat can improve a person's attention in the short-term, which is consistent with the results in this study ...
  • Genetic variation cues social anxiety in monkeys and humans

    ... source of social information, and it's well established that both humans and macaques tend to direct visual attention to faces, especially the eye region ...
  • Infants draw on past to interpret present, understand other people's behavior

    ... had previous desired to retrieve the target toy. Infants' visual attention to these events was measured, and after infants ... the assistant's intention in the second phase. They used infants' visual attention to the novel test events to gauge ...
  • First brain study reveals benefits of exercise on quitting smoking

    ... while they viewed a series of 60 images. Some visuals featured cigarettes and would normally induce ... in areas of the brain associated with reward-processing and visual attention. After exercise the same areas of activation ...
  • Visual attention: How the brain makes the most of the visible world

    ... techniques, have helped to unravel the mechanisms underlying attention. "In everyday viewing a visual detail that is the target ... . Their model suggests that attention co-opts the same neural circuitry used by the visual system to adjust ...
  • Visual learning study challenges common belief on attention

    ... images." This new insight into visual attention could lead to novel teaching strategies to help people ... the ability of human subjects to process visual stimuli in the absence of attention. Participants were asked to stare ...
  • Action video games improve vision

    ... of gray has long been thought to be an attribute of the human visual system that cannot be improved. But Daphne Bavelier ... video games decrease visual crowding and increases visual attention. Contrast sensitivity, she ...

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