Directed attention fatigue

From Psychology Wiki

Community portal · Tasks to do · News · Help

Clinical · Educational · Ind&Org · Other fields · Professional · Transpersonal · World

Assessment | Biopsychology | Comparative | Cognitive | Developmental | Language
Personality | Philosophy | Research Methods | Social | Statistics

Cognitive Psychology: Attention · Learning · Memory · Motivation · Perception · Thinking

---

Directed attention fatigue occurs when the inhibitory attention system, that part of the brain which allows us to concentrate in the face of distractions, becomes fatigued.

Signs of directed attention fatigue include temporarily feeling unusually distractible, impatient, forgetful, or cranky when there is no associated illness. In more severe forms, it can lead to bad judgment, apathy, or accidents, and can contribute to increased stress levels. DAF is caused by concentrating too much in the midst of external or internal distractions. Inhibitory attention chemicals are replenished during sleep, so lack of sleep can increase the likelihood of directed attention fatigue.

Researchers studying directed attention fatigue:

• Dr. Rachel Kaplan, the University of Michigan
• Dr. Stephen Kaplan, the University of Michigan
• Dr. Bernadine Cimprich, the University of Michigan
• Dr. Frances Kuo, University of Illinois

Contents 1 Bibliography 2 Key Texts – Books 3 Additional material – Books 4 Key Texts – Papers 5 Additional material - Papers 6 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Key Texts – Books

[edit] Additional material – Books

[edit] Key Texts – Papers

[edit] Additional material - Papers

[edit] External links

Attention
Aspects of attention
Absent-mindedness | Attention span | Attentional shift | Directed attention fatigue | Attention management | Attentional blink | Attentional bias | Attention economy | Attention and emotion | Attention optimization | Change blindness | Concentration |Dichotic listening | Distraction | Distractibility | Divided attention | Hyperfocus | Inattentional blindness | Mindfulness |Mind-wandering | Meditation | Salience | Selective attention | Selective inattention | Signal detection theory | Sustained attention | Vigilance | Visual search |
Developmental aspects of attention
centration | [[]] |
Neuroanatomy of attention
Attention versus memory in prefrontal cortex |Dorsal attention network | | Neural mechanisms | Ventral attention network | Intraparietal sulcus |
Neurochemistry of attention
Glutamatergic system  | [[]] |
Attention in clinical settings
Attention training | ADHD | ADHD contoversy | ADD | AADD | Centering | Distractability |Attention and aging | Hypervigilance | Hyperprosexia | Cognitive-shifting | Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy |
Attention in educational settings
Concentration |
Assessing attention
Benton | Continuous Performance Task | TOMM | Wechsler Memory Scale |
Treating attention problems
CBT | Psychotherapy |
Prominant workers in attention
Baddeley | Broadbent | [[]] | Treisman | Cave |
edit

This page uses content from the English-language version of Wikipedia. The original article was at Directed attention fatigue. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Psychology Wiki, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.