PRINCIPLE 6

MEMORY AND ATTENTION

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Chabris, C. & Simons, D. (2010). The invisible gorilla. [video] (1:22 minutos) (se puede usar "CC" y poner los sub títulos en español).

Chun, M.M., et al. (2011). A taxonomy of external and internal attention. Annual Review of Psychology, 62, 73–101. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.093008.100427

Cordeira, J., Kolluru, S. S., Rosenblatt, H., Kry, J., Strecker, R. E., & McCarley, R. W. (2018). Learning and memory are impaired in the object recognition task during metestrus/diestrus and after sleep deprivation. Behavioural Brain Research, 339, 124-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2017.11.033

McClelland, M. M., Acock, A. C., Piccinin, A., Rhea, S. A., & Stallings, M. C. (2013). Relations between preschool attention span-persistence and age 25 educational outcomes. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28(2), 314-324. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.ecresq.2012.07.008

Ordikhani-Seyedlar, M. (2017). What happens in your brain when you pay attention TED 2017. [Video]. TED Conferences. https://www.ted.com/talks/mehdi_ordikhani_seyedlar_what_happens_in_your_brain_when_you_pay_attention/transcript?language=es#t-2427

Petersen, S. E., & Posner, M. I. (2012). The attention system of the human brain: 20 years after. Annual Review of Neuroscience, 35, 73-89. https://dx.doi.org/10.1146%2Fannurev-neuro-062111-150525

Posner, M. I., Rothbart, M. K., & Tang, Y. Y. (2015). Enhancing attention through training. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 4, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2014.12.008

Posner, M. I., Rothbart, M. K., Sheese, B. E., & Voelker, P. (2014). Developing attention: Behavioral and brain mechanisms. Advances in Neuroscience, 2014. Artículo 405094. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/405094

Rosen, C. (2008). The myth of multitasking.  The New Atlantis, 20, 105–110.

Rosen, M. L., Meltzoff, A. N., Sheridan, M. A., & McLaughlin, K. A. (2019). Distinct aspects of the early environment contribute to associative memory, cued attention, and memory-guided attention: Implications for academic achievement. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 40, Artículo 100731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100731

Rosenberg, M. D., Finn, E. S., Scheinost, D., Constable, R. T., & Chun, M. M. (2017). Characterizing attention with predictive network models. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 21(4), 290-302. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.tics.2017.01.011

Rueda, M.R., & Posner, M.I. (2013). Development of attention networks. En P. D. Zelazo (Ed). The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology vol. I Body and Mind (pp. 683-705). Oxford University Press.

Tang, Y. Y., Rothbart, M. K., & Posner, M. I. (2012). Neural correlates of establishing, maintaining, and switching brain states. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 16(6), 330-337. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.tics.2012.05.001

Tokuhama-Espinosa, T. (2014). Making classrooms better: Best practices 11-16 (attention; affect) [video] (19:44; 33:58 minutes). YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS97lCJSHgQ 

Date of last update: 11-Jan-2021

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