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Beesley, Tom; Hanafi, Gunadi; Vadillo, Miguel A.; Shanks, David R.; Livesey, Evan J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
Two experiments examined biases in selective attention during contextual cuing of visual search. When participants were instructed to search for a target of a particular color, overt attention (as measured by the location of fixations) was biased strongly toward distractors presented in that same color. However, when participants searched for…
Descriptors: Attention, Cues, Bias, Visual Perception
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Jessica E. Bartley; Michael C. Riedel; Taylor Salo; Emily R. Boeving; Katherine L. Bottenhorn; Elsa I. Bravo; Rosalie Odean; Alina Nazareth; Robert W. Laird; Matthew T. Sutherland; Shannon M. Pruden; Eric Brewe; Angela R. Laird – npj Science of Learning, 2019
Understanding how students learn is crucial for helping them succeed. We examined brain function in 107 undergraduate students during a task known to be challenging for many students--physics problem solving--to characterize the underlying neural mechanisms and determine how these support comprehension and proficiency. Further, we applied module…
Descriptors: Brain, Cognitive Processes, Science Process Skills, Abstract Reasoning
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Salley, Brenda; Panneton, Robin K.; Colombo, John – Infancy, 2013
The aim of this study was to examine the combined influences of infants' attention and use of social cues in the prediction of their language outcomes. This longitudinal study measured infants' visual attention on a distractibility task (11 months), joint attention (14 months), and language outcomes (word-object association, 14 months; MBCDI…
Descriptors: Attention, Predictor Variables, Infants, Cues
Fleming, Malcolm – AV Commun Rev, 1969
Reviews a large number of studies of eye movement. Bibliography appended. (LS)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Attention, Cognitive Processes, Eye Movements