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