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Pathologies and Remedies in Sustaining Attention
The ability to sustain attention over time is not just a central foundation for other cognitive functions but also is important in emotional control. Here I outline some of the underlying processes in sustaining attention, and the particularly strong role that the locus coeruleus/noradrenaline systems, and right hemisphere fronto-parietal networks, play in this. I further outline the role of these systems in self-awareness/self monitoring and end by showing how it is possible to improve the performance of these systems through behavioural methods as well as by brain stimulation.
Date:
28 January 2016, 12:00
Venue:
Tinbergen Building, South Parks Road OX1 3PS
Venue Details:
Lecture Theatre C
Speaker:
Professor Ian Robertson (University of Oxford)
Organising department:
Department of Experimental Psychology
Host:
Professor Charles Vincent (University of Oxford)
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Janice Young
