to edit and comment
a collaborative knowledge base characterizing the state of current thought in Cognitive Science.

attention CONCEPT
Unreviewed

used to describe any number of cognitive processes, organized as top-down or bottom-up, goal-directed or stimulus-driven, and more, but generally reflecting an interplay between cognitive and sensory systems.

Definition contributed by Anonymous

Tasks that are asserted to measure attention

Task Contrast Measure

global-local task
  • identification of global feature versus identification of local feature

Mindful Attention and Awareness Scale
  • attention to daily life

Barratt Impulsiveness Scale
  • impulsiveness

Mindstrong for Regulation of Cognition
  • attention data

P300 BCI
  • ERP amplitude
  • ERP latency

Montreal Cognitive Assessment
  • Total score

target detection task
  • percent detected

Distraction paradigm (capture)
  • distracted RT minus non-distracted RT

dual-task paradigm
  • dual task RT minus single task RT

Spatial cuing paradigm
  • eye movement reaction time

adolescent symptom inventory
  • ADHD Inattentive - Severity Score

numerosity estimation task
  • high minus low load conditions
  • number of distractors
  • number of items to be counted (past subitizing threshold)

dichotic listening task
  • degree of association between unattended and attended

Color Trails Test
  • consistent - inconsistent

immediate memory task
  • proportion of correct to incorrect responses

delayed memory task
  • proportion of correct to incorrect responses

digit cancellation task
  • distraction minus standard

Term BIBLIOGRAPHY

A taxonomy of external and internal attention.
Chun MM, Golomb JD, Turk-Browne NB
Annual review of psychology (Annu Rev Psychol)
2011

Dissociating the role of the dorsolateral prefrontal and anterior cingulate cortex in cognitive control.
MacDonald AW 3rd, Cohen JD, Stenger VA, Carter CS
(Science)
2000 Jun 9

The attention system of the human brain.
Posner MI, Petersen SE
Annual review of neuroscience (Annu Rev Neurosci)
1990

Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain.
Corbetta M, Shulman GL
Nature reviews. Neuroscience (Nat Rev Neurosci)
2002 Mar