Browsing by Subject "Attention"
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Doctoral Thesis Open Access
Attention bias modification treatment for social anxiety : avoidance or exposure to threatening faces : the role of pre-existing attentional bias and state anxiety
(Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, 2019-05)Η παρούσα έρευνα αποτελείται από 2 πειράματα τα οποία έχουν ως σκοπό την μελέτη της αποτελεσματικότητας της παρέμβασης Μετατροπής Μεροληψιών Προσοχής (Attention Bias Modification Treatment; ABMT) σε άτομα με κοινωνικό ...
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Doctoral Thesis Open Access
Attentional capture by visual object-representations
(Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, 2018-05)Η σύλληψη της προσοχής από ένα αντικείμενο συμβαίνει όταν αυτό ταιριάζει με τα περιεχόμενα της μνήμης εργασίας. Η τρέχουσα μελέτη ερεύνησε ένα αντίστοιχο αποτέλεσμα στις αναπαραστάσεις των οπτικών περιοχών: Όταν υπάρχει ...
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Article
Can nonconceptual content be stored in visual memory?
(2010)Dartnall claims that visual short-term memory (VSTM) stores nonconceptual content (NCC), in the form of compressed images. In this paper I argue against the claim that NCC can be stored in VSTM. I offer four reasons why ...
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Article
Chronic Self-Consciousness and Its Effects on Cognitive Performance, Physiology, and Self-Reported Anxiety
(University of North Carolina Dept of Psychology, 2005)Self-focused attention, as induced in the lab, facilitates task performance in some instances and inhibits it in others. Less is know about the effects of trait self-consciousness on performance. The present study examines ...
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Cognitive correlates of developing intelligence: The contribution of working memory, processing speed and attention
(2016)The present study examined the relations of general, fluid and crystallized intelligence with three cognitive functions - speed of processing, attention and working memory (WM) - in 158 7- to 18-year-old children and ...
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Conference Object
Computational modeling of visual selective attention
(2011)An overview of a nerocomputational model of visual selective attention that has been properly implemented is presented in this abstract. Visual selective attention is a fundamental function of human cognition and a highly ...
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Article
Effects of self-focused attention on recognizing previously presented self-relevant and irrelevant stimuli
(Hellenic Psychological Society, 2007)Self-focused attention elevates individuals’ awareness of the self as an object and directs attentional resources toward it. It facilitates the performance of well learned tasks or the recall of information pertaining to ...
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Performance effects of self-focused attention among evaluatively anxious and normal individuals: A review of the literature. Psychology.
(Hellenic Psychological Society, 2004)During the last three decades there has been a growing literature on self-focused attention, the state during which the self becomes the center of awareness. The effects of such a mental state on the performance of social, ...
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Pre-cueing, the Epistemic Role of Early Vision, and the Cognitive Impenetrability of Early Vision
(Frontiers Media S.A, 2017)I have argued (Raftopoulos, 2009, 2014) that early vision is not directly affected by cognition since its processes do not draw on cognition as an informational resource; early vision processes do not operate over cognitive ...
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Conference Object
A proposed extension of the CODAM model for human attention
(2009)A new computational model of visual attention is proposed on a theoretical basis, based on the CODAM model (Taylor, 2002, [25], 2006). Also a more general mechanism is proposed for an attention model of two or more senses ...
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Article
Reference, perception, and attention
(2009)I examine John Campbell's claim that the determination of the reference of a perceptual demonstrative requires conscious visual object-based selective attention. I argue that although Campbell's claim to the effect that, ...
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Book Chapter
Teacher ratings and the assessment of attention deficits in school age children
(Nova Biomedical Books, 2007)The ability of teachers to identify children with attention difficulties was assessed among Cypriot and Canadian school children using the Attention Checklist (ACL; Das, 1986). Data were collected among Grade 4 children ...
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Doctoral Thesis Open Access
Γνωστικό μοντέλο εντοπισμού και αντιμετώπισης της διαταραχής ελλειμματικής προσοχής - υπερκινητικότητας (ΔΕΠ-Υ) (μέσω ηλεκτρονικού υπολογιστή) σε μαθητές πρώτης σχολικής ηλικίας
(Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, Σχολή Κοινωνικών Επιστημών και Επιστημών Αγωγής / University of Cyprus, Faculty of Social Sciences and Education, 2009-05)Αναπτύχθηκε και εφαρμόστηκε ένα ηλεκτρονικό Γνωστικό Θεραπευτικό Πρόγραμμα (ΓΘΠ) για την αντιμετώπιση της ΔΕΠ-Υ. Η ανάπτυξη του ΓΘΠ στηρίχθηκε στις τέσσερις εκτελεστικές λειτουργίες (αναστολή, προσοχή, εργαζόμενη μνήμη και ...
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Book
Προσοχή και μαθησιακές δεξιότητες
(Ελληνικά Γράμματα, 1995)