The Measurement Of Attention

Excerpt from The Measurement of Attention Our study of previous views and methods regarding the measurement of attention will naturally divide into three parts. First we shall take up the theoretical discussions con cerning the nature of degrees of attention. In the second place, we shall review the general experimental methods usually employed for inducing different degrees of attention without attempt at their accurate measurement. Finally, we shall have to study the special methods and standards pro posed or actually used for measuring attention. This, in gen eral, is the programme which we have laid out for ourselves in Part I of the present study. In the second Part we shall submit experimental evidence for the possibility of an adequate measurement of attention in terms of clearness values. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Measurement of Attention: A Thesis We give a single illustration. F, after an experiment in which the task was to repeat continuously the alphabet backwards, reports' Repeated alphabet backwards two and a half times. Practice has made this task much easier than at first, so that it is easier for the distraction (the metronomes) to catch attention. Four times for several seconds the sounds of the metronomes were the clearest processes in consciousness, perhaps 75% clear. The repeating process the complex of repeating the alphabet backwards, which was composed of visual images of dark grey lines stretching from right to left, eyes following along on lines sometimes with vague visual images of several letters in a group; accompanied by these visual images, or where visual images were lacking accompanied by the kinaesthetic images of eye movements, sibilant auditory images of letters) was only 10-20% clear. Aside from these four times the repeating processes were 85% clear, and the sound of the metronome was 10 - 15% clear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.