Sentences with phrase «attention on a particular task»
«Our latest research findings support a newly emerging model of how the brain focuses attention on a particular task, using neurons in the thalamic reticular nucleus as a switchboard to control the amount of information the brain receives, limiting and filtering out sensory information that we don't want to pay attention to,» says senior study investigator and neuroscientist Michael Halassa, MD, PhD.
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As children grow older, they mostly become better at focusing their attention on a particular task and are less easily distracted.
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Analysis focused on 22 regions of interest where brain activation increased during the task, with particular attention to those regions» interactions with an area previously shown to play a role in identifying speech sounds.
Educators can also use careful questioning to get children thinking in appropriate ways about a task, or to keep their attention focused on the important aspects of a particular task, for example: «I wonder what would happen if...» or «How else could we...?»
Attention also becomes more purposeful, with children gradually becoming better at selecting and focusing on the information most important to a particular task.