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Nafati, Gilel; Vuillerme, Nicolas – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2011
This experiment was designed to investigate whether and how decreasing the amount of attentional focus invested in postural control could affect bipedal postural control. Twelve participants were asked to stand upright as immobile as possible on a force platform in one control condition and one cognitive condition. In the latter condition, they…
Descriptors: Human Posture, Adults, Attention, Attention Control
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Riviere, James; Falaise, Aurelie – Developmental Psychology, 2011
An intriguing error has been observed in toddlers presented with a 3-location search task involving invisible displacements of an object, namely, the C-not-B task. In 3 experiments, the authors investigated the dynamics of the attentional focus process that is suspected to be involved in this task. In Experiment 1, 2.5-year-old children were…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Disabilities, Toddlers, Toys
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Goujon, Annabelle; Didierjean, Andre; Marmeche, Evelyne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Since M. M. Chun and Y. Jiang's (1998) original study, a large body of research based on the contextual cuing paradigm has shown that the visuocognitive system is capable of capturing certain regularities in the environment in an implicit way. The present study investigated whether regularities based on the semantic category membership of the…
Descriptors: Models, Semantics, Prompting, Attention