- shifting attention
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shifting attention
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Shifting Attitudes in a Changing World — ▪ 1998 by Gro Harlem Brundtland Gro Harlem Brundtland is a physician who left medicine to launch a career in politics. During the time she served as prime minister of Norway (February October 1981, 1986 89, and 1990 96), she was the dominant… … Universalium
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continuous partial attention — n. A state in which most of one s attention is on a primary task, but where one is also monitoring several background tasks just in case something more important or interesting comes up. Also: CPA. Example Citations: One of the most interesting… … New words
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Subitizing and counting — Subitizing, coined in 1949 by E.L. Kaufman et al.cite journal|author=Kaufman, E. L., Lord, M. W., Reese, T. W., Volkmann, J|year=1949|title=The discrimination of visual number|journal=American Journal of… … Wikipedia
N2pc — refers to an ERP component linked to selective attention.[1] The N2pc appears over visual cortex contralateral to the location in space to which subjects are attending; if subjects pay attention to the left side of the visual field, the N2pc… … Wikipedia
