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Researcher at Biocruces Bizkaia Instituto Investigación Sanitaria / Osasun Ikerketa Institutua
What is attention? Attention is a basic, multidimensional cognitive ability, essential for information processing[1]. On the one hand, it is considered basic because it is essential for the correct functioning of higher-order psychological processes such as learning, by receiving, selecting and assimilating/interpreting stimuli that will later be encoded and stored in an organized manner in …
As already discussed in a previous blog post, the most frequently used theoretical model for the rehabilitation of attention is the clinical model of Sohlberg and Mateer, in which attention is divided hierarchically into five levels, with alternating attention being the fourth level. This means that to efficiently carry out an activity requiring alternating attention, a proper functioning of focused, sustained and selective attention is required1.
Attention is a complex cognitive function that has been researched from several scientific fields—from neuropsychology to cognitive neurosciencevia psychometrics and even electrophysiology. This has resulted in the development of multiple models that attempt to explain this ability from different perspectives. Cognitive neuroscience, for example, attempts to identify those areas of the brain most involved in attentional processes such as the prefrontal cortex and sensory cortex, and subcortical structures such as the optic thalamus, the corpus striatum (the caudatenucleus and the lentiform nucleus), the septal nuclei, the nucleus basalis of Meynert, and the cerebellum.1
Transgender people experience a sense of dissonance between their biological sex at birth and their gender identity.
What is divided attention? Divided attention is the last and highest level of attention inthe clinical model proposed by Sohlberg and Mateer1, in which different levels of attention are organized in a hierarchical fashion; hence, divided attention isfollowed by alternating, selective, sustainedand focused attention. This level of attention allows us to attend totwo or more …
