Sources of attention in the brain create a system of three networks: alertness (maintaining awareness), orientation (information from sensory input), and executive control … 展开

Infancy
Early researchers studying the development of the frontal cortex thought that it was functionally silent during the first year of life. Similarly, early research suggested that infants aged one year or younger are completely … 展开

Performance
Attentional control theory focuses on anxiety and cognitive performance. The assumption of this theory … 展开

The cocktail party effect is the phenomenon that a person hears his or her name even when not attending to the conversation. To study … 展开

Disrupted attentional control has been noted not just in the early development of conditions for which the core deficit is related to attention such as ADHD, but also in conditions such as autism and anxiety. Disrupted attentional control has also been reported in … 展开

Our brains have distinct attention systems that have been shaped throughout time by evolution. Visual attention operates mainly on three different … 展开

• Attention
• Delayed gratification
• Dysexecutive syndrome
• Executive dysfunction
• Executive functions 展开