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A Distracted Muse: The Positive Effect of Dual-Task Distraction on Creative Potential
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Collins, Maurice James D'Arcy – Creativity Research Journal, 2020
Where do novel ideas come from? What mental processes facilitate them? The disinhibition hypothesis suggests creative cognition can be assisted by reducing cognitive inhibition of ideas, facilitating looser associative thoughts to bond with one another to produce novel concepts. Past exploration of the disinhibition hypothesis has been drawn from…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Concept Formation, Creative Thinking
Preschoolers' Self-Regulation in Context: Task Persistence Profiles with Mothers and Fathers and Later Attention Problems in Kindergarten
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Erika Lunkenheimer; Carlomagno Panlilio; Frances M. Lobo; Sheryl L. Olson; Catherine M. Hamby – Grantee Submission, 2019
Task persistence is related to attentional regulation and is needed for the successful transition to school. Understanding preschoolers' task persistence with caregivers could better inform the development and prevention of attention problems across this transition. Preschoolers' real-time task persistence profiles during problem-solving tasks…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Attention, Persistence
Exploring Insight: Focus on Shifts of Attention
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Palatnik, Alik; Koichu, Boris – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2015
The paper presents and analyses a sequence of events that preceded an insight solution to a challenging problem in the context of numerical sequences. A three­week long solution process by a pair of ninth­-grade students is analysed by means of the theory of shifts of attention. The goal for this article is to reveal the potential of this theory…
Descriptors: Attention, Grade 9, Attention Control, Educational Theories
Control of Orienting Behavior in Children under Five Years of Age
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Turnure, James E. – Developmental Psychology, 1971
The capability of young high ability children to cope with extraneous distractive stimuli during performance on a two-choice discrimination task was investigated. Results indicate that existing interpretations of the development of attentive abilities in children based on the notion of an increasing attention span are in need of elaboration or…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Attention Span, Learning
Perceptual Tuning and Conscious Attention: Systems of Input Regulation in Visual Information Processing
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Carr, Thomas H. – Cognition, 1976
Reviews the literature dealing with the loci and parameters of visual selective attention. It is maintained that input selection can be found at several points in the course of processing. Specifically, a case is made for very early perceptual selection, called perceptual tuning, which can be based on higher-order conceptual or structural stimulus…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Cognitive Processes, Literature Reviews
Increasing Instructional Effectiveness through the Use of a Problem-Solving Approach to the Design of Instructional Systems.
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Moore, J. William; Schaut, Judith A. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1978
Elementary and secondary school teachers were trained to generate effective instructional systems which provided for a greater number of individual students. There was a significant decrease in both the number of students exhibiting inattention and in the mean amount of inattention displayed by students of experimental teachers. (Author/GDC)
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Elementary Secondary Education, Individualized Instruction