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Attention management
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Attention in a Social World by Michael I. PosnerISBN: 9780199791217
Publication Date: 2012-02-08
In this work, Michael Posner, a pioneer in attention research, presents the science of attention in a larger social context, which includes our ability to voluntarily choose and act upon an object of thought. The volume is based on fifty years of research involving behavioral, imaging, developmental, and genetic methods. It describes three brain networks of attention that carry out the functions of obtaining and maintaining the alert state, orienting to sensory events, and regulating responses.
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Living into Focus: Choosing What Matters in an Age of Distractions by Arthur BoersISBN: 9781587433146
Publication Date: 2012-01-01
Veteran pastor and teacher Arthur Boers offers a critical look at the isolating effects of modern life that have eroded the centralizing, focusing activities that people used to do together. He suggests ways to make our lives healthier and more rewarding by presenting specific individual and communal practices that help us focus on what really matters. These practices--such as shared meals, gardening, hospitality, walking, prayer, and reading aloud--bring our lives into focus and build community.
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Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age by Maggie JacksonISBN: 9781591026235
Publication Date: 2008-06-01
In this gripping exposé of our cyber-centric, attention-deficient life, journalist Maggie Jackson argues that we are eroding our capacity for deep attention and mindfulness. The implications for a healthy society are stark. In her sweeping quest to unravel the nature of attention and detail its losses, Jackson introduces us to scientists, cartographers, marketers, educators, wired teens, and even roboticists. She offers us a compelling wake-up call, an adventure story, and reasons for hope.
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Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life by Nir Eyal; Julie LiISBN: 9781948836784
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us.
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Distraction by Damon YoungISBN: 9781317488217
Publication Date: 2014-12-05
In his lucid, timely book, Damon Young shows that distraction is more than too many stimuli, or too little attention. Exploring the lives of such luminaries as Henri Matisse, Karl Marx, Seneca and Henry James, Young exposes distraction in work, technology, art, politics and intimacy. With warmth and wit, he reveals what is most valuable, and what is best avoided, in the pursuit of a life of one's own.
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Can I Have Your Attention?: How to Think Fast, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Concentration by Joseph CardilloISBN: 9781601638915
Publication Date: 2009-08-01
Can I Have Your Attention? is an eye-popping adventure that combines ancient, high-speed attention-building processes with cutting-edge attention research in psychology, neurology, and biology. Through Joseph Cardillo's engaging personal account of the world of human attention, you will uncover surprising secrets about the workings of your own mind. This fresh look at ancient attention skills and new science will transform your thinking about what human attention is.
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Orienting of Attention by Richard D. Wright; Lawrence M. WardISBN: 9780198029977
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
This book is a succinct introduction to the orienting of attention. Richard Wright and Lawrence Ward describe the covert orienting literature clearly and concisely, illustrating it with numerous high-quality images, specifically designed to make the challenging theoretical concepts very accessible. The book begins with an historical introduction that provides a great deal of information about orienting, much of which will be new even to seasoned researchers.
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