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Kjellberg A. Sleep deprivation and some aspects of performance. II. Lapses and other attentional effects. Waking and Sleeping. Vol. 1, 1977 145-148. 

Mayer, R. E. and R. Moreno (1998) A split-attention effect in multimedia learning Evidence for dual processing systems in working memory. Journal of Educational Psychology 90(2), 312-320. 

Clark CR, Geffen GM, Geffen LB (1986) Role of monoamine pathways in the control of attention Effects of droperidol and methylphenidate in normal adult humans. Psychopharmacology 90 28-34. 

Howson AL, Batth S, Ilivitsky V, BoisjoU A, Jaworski M, Mahoney C, Knott VJ (2004) Clinical and attentional effects of acute nicotine treatment in Tourette s syndrome. Eur Psychiatry 19 102-112... 

Mayer, RE and Moreno, R (1998) A Split-Attention Effect in Multimedia Learning Evidence for Dual Processing Systems in Working Memory. J Educ Psychol 90 312-320. 

Tactile-spatial and cross-modal attention effects in the second somatosensory and 7b cortical areas of rhesus monkeys. Somatosens Mot Res 14(4) 237-267. 

Coull JT, Jones MEP, Egan TD, Frith CD, Maze M (2004) Attentional effects of noradrenaline vary with arousal level selective activation of thalamic pulvinar in humans. Neuroimage 22 315-322. 

These studies represent significant evidence that stimulation of nicotinic receptors can improve the acquisition and retention of verbal (declarative) and non-verbal information in humans. The role of attentional effects of nicotinic stimulation has been stressed by Sahakian and Coull (1994). However, as has been suggested by Warburton and... 

One need only read titles of conferences in a workshop at the Eighteenth meeting of the Association Scientifique Internationale du Cafe in 1999 Effects of caffeine on attention , Effects of caffeine on memory and aging , etc. Caffeine certainly has a positive effect on attention, it reduces the sensation of tiredness, consequently gives a lighter sleep. There is also a question of habit and every individual has to adapt his consumption to his own reactions. 

Dijksterhuis et al, "Deliberation-without-Attention Effect" (2006) the footnotes provide a useful entree into the scientific literature on this subject. Such research has long been discussed in the trade press see e.g. Claxton, Hare Brain (1997) Norretranders, User Illusion (1998) Gladwell Blink (2005). 

Dijksterhuis, A., et al. "On Making the Right Choice The Deliberation-without-Attention Effect." Science 311 (17 Feb. 2006) 935, 1005-7. 

By far the effect of sampling disturbance on the consolidation behavior has received the most attention. Effects on consolidation can be summarized as follows (Rutledge, 1944) ... 

Dekker, J., and W. Everaerd 1988 Attentional effects on sexual arousal. Psychophysiology 25 45—54. 

Halogen, phosphorus, antimony and metal oxide flame retardants and organo-silicon are attracted one s attention. Effective additives are required to impart fire retardancy to polymeric materials used in a variety of applications. Traditionally, these have been gas-phase active additives, most commonly, oiganohalogen... 

Knight (1994) reports that the effects of attention can onset as early as 25 ms after stimulation, indicating that humans are able to exert attention effects on inputs to the primary auditory cortex. Similar effects of selective attention have been reported in the visual and somatosensory modalities. 

Charlton, S. G. (2004). Perceptual and attentional effects on drivers speed selection at curves. Accid. Anal Prev. 36,877-884. 

R. Naatanen, A. W. K. Gaillard, and S. Mantysalo (1978) Early selec-tiveauditory attention effect on evoked responses reinterpreted. Ac-taPsychologica 42 313-329. 

The study tested three modalities of advice (text-only, text-and-audio, and text-audio-and-agent) in addition there was a control group with no advice, resulting in four between-subject groups with 10 subjects each. Following Moreno and Mayer s [17] multimedia design principle (Split-Attention Effect), the audio and text were not played concurrently, to prevent the audio from interfering with text advice. 

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