Trial reportPloS one2013
Fixation strategy influences the ability to focus attention on two spatially separate objects.
Trial report in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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19 citing papers in PubMed.
- The role of spatial processing in verbal serial order working memory.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- The Effects of High-Intensity Interval Training on Cognitive and Physical Skills in Basketball and Soccer Players.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2024Article
- Changes in attentional breadth scale with the demands of Kanizsa-figure object completion-evidence from pupillometry.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Individual differences in attention allocation during a two-dimensional inhibitory control task.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- Studying Spatial Visual Attention: The Attention-Window Task as a Measurement Tool for the Shape and Maximum Spread of the Attention Window.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Spatial Separation and Working Memory Capacity Affect Selective Visual Attention in the Periphery.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Adaptive Gaze Behavior and Decision Making of Penalty Corner Strikers in Field Hockey.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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- Predictors of real-life mobility in community-dwelling older adults: an exploration based on a comprehensive framework for analyzing mobility.European review of aging and physical activity : official journal of the European Group for Research into Elderly and Physical Activity · 2019Article
- The Relationship Between Cognitive Functions and Sport-Specific Motor Skills in Elite Youth Soccer Players.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Can training change attentional breadth? Failure to find transfer effects.Psychological research · 2018Article
- Cognitive functioning is more closely related to real-life mobility than to laboratory-based mobility parameters.European journal of ageing · 2018Article
- Can Driving-Simulator Training Enhance Visual Attention, Cognition, and Physical Functioning in Older Adults?Journal of aging research · 2018Article
- Color Perception and Attentional Load in Dynamic, Time-Constrained Environments.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Distinctiveness as a function of spatial expansion in verbal working memory: comment on Kreitz, Furley, Memmert, and Simons (2015).Psychological research · 2017Article
- Evaluating erroneous offside calls in soccer.PloS one · 2017Article
- Working-memory performance is related to spatial breadth of attention.Psychological research · 2015Article
- Rumination and Performance in Dynamic, Team Sport.Frontiers in psychology · 2015Article
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Abstract
The ability to devote attention simultaneously to multiple visual objects plays an important role in domains ranging from everyday activities to the workplace. Yet, no studies have systematically explored the fixation strategies that optimize attention to two spatially distinct objects. Assuming the two objects require attention nearly simultaneously, subjects either could fixate one object or they could fixate between the objects. Studies measuring the breadth of attention have focused almost exclusively on the former strategy, by having subjects simultaneously perform one attention-demanding task at fixation and another in the periphery. We compared performance when one object was at fixation and the other was in the periphery to a condition in which both objects were in the periphery and subjects fixated between them. Performance was better with two peripheral stimuli than with one central and one peripheral stimulus, meaning that a strategy of fixating between stimuli permitted greater attention breadth. Consistent with the idea that both measures tap attention breadth, sport experts consistently outperformed novices with both fixation strategies. Our findings suggest a way to improve performance when observers must pay attention to multiple objects across spatial regions. We discuss possible explanations for this performance advantage.
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