Examining the Mechanisms of Internal and External Focus of Attention With Donders' Subtractive Method.

IF 0.9 4区医学 Q4 NEUROSCIENCES

Motor Control Pub Date : 2022-04-28 DOI:10.1123/mc.2021-0100

Jarrod Blinch, J. Harry, M. Hart, D. Cousineau

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Abstract

The goal of the current study was to measure the processing demands on the stages of information processing with internal and external foci of attention. Participants completed simple and two-choice reaction time tasks with internal and external foci of attention. Donders' subtraction method was used to isolate the cumulative duration of stages unique to simple and choice reaction time tasks. Mean reaction time was comparable with internal and external foci of attention in simple and two-choice reaction time tasks. These results suggest that processing demands were comparable with internal and external foci of attention. We hypothesize that there was not a processing advantage for an external focus in simple reaction time because the required movements had low movement complexity.

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用Donders减法考察内外注意焦点的形成机制。

当前研究的目标是测量具有内部和外部关注焦点的信息处理阶段的处理需求。参与者通过内部和外部注意力焦点完成了简单的两种选择反应时间任务。Donders的减法用于分离简单和选择反应时间任务所特有的阶段的累积持续时间。在简单反应时间任务和二选一反应时间任务中，平均反应时间与内部和外部注意力焦点相当。这些结果表明，加工需求与内部和外部关注焦点相当。我们假设，在简单的反应时间内，外部焦点没有处理优势，因为所需的动作具有较低的动作复杂性。

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Motor Control 医学-神经科学

CiteScore

1.80

自引率

9.10%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Motor Control (MC), a peer-reviewed journal, provides a multidisciplinary examination of human movement across the lifespan. To keep you abreast of current developments in the field of motor control, it offers timely coverage of important topics, including issues related to motor disorders. This international journal publishes many types of research papers, from clinical experimental to modeling and theoretical studies. These papers come from such varied disciplines as biomechanics, kinesiology, neurophysiology, neuroscience, psychology, physical medicine, and rehabilitation. Motor Control, the official journal of the International Society of Motor Control, is designed to provide a multidisciplinary forum for the exchange of scientific information on the control of human movement across the lifespan, including issues related to motor disorders. Motor Control encourages submission of papers from a variety of disciplines including, but not limited to, biomechanics, kinesiology, neurophysiology, neuroscience, psychology, physical medicine, and rehabilitation. This peer-reviewed journal publishes a wide variety of types of research papers including clinical experimental, modeling, and theoretical studies. To be considered for publication, papers should clearly demonstrate a contribution to the understanding of control of movement. In addition to publishing research papers, Motor Control publishes review articles, quick communications, commentaries, target articles, and book reviews. When warranted, an entire issue may be devoted to a specific topic within the area of motor control.