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Understanding Rett Syndrome offers a concise, evidence-based
introduction to Rett Syndrome (RTT), covering a range of topics
from diagnosis and causes to treatment and family management. It
focuses on improving the quality of life for those with the
syndrome by suggesting practical ways of managing the condition at
home and at school, offering support and guidance to all parents
and caregivers learning how to help children with RTT. Over the
course of six chapters, Fabio, Capri and, Martino explore signs and
symptoms of RTT, along with an overview of treatment, therapy, and
interventions for those living with the condition, focusing on
technological aids such as eye-tracking and ICT and new neural
techniques. Illustrated with interviews with parents of children
living with RTT, Understanding Rett Syndrome is essential reading
for parents and caregivers, as well as practitioners in clinical
and educational psychology, counseling, mental health, nursing,
child welfare, public healthcare, and those in education.
Understanding Rett Syndrome offers a concise, evidence-based
introduction to Rett Syndrome (RTT), covering a range of topics
from diagnosis and causes to treatment and family management. It
focuses on improving the quality of life for those with the
syndrome by suggesting practical ways of managing the condition at
home and at school, offering support and guidance to all parents
and caregivers learning how to help children with RTT. Over the
course of six chapters, Fabio, Capri and, Martino explore signs and
symptoms of RTT, along with an overview of treatment, therapy, and
interventions for those living with the condition, focusing on
technological aids such as eye-tracking and ICT and new neural
techniques. Illustrated with interviews with parents of children
living with RTT, Understanding Rett Syndrome is essential reading
for parents and caregivers, as well as practitioners in clinical
and educational psychology, counseling, mental health, nursing,
child welfare, public healthcare, and those in education.
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Attention Today (Paperback)
Tindara Capri, Rosa Angela Fabio, Giulia Emma Towey, Alessandro Antonietti
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This book aims to present an overview of current research and
dominant theories on human attention. It presents a comprehensive
review of the current state of theories in the field, including the
measurement and neuropsychology of attention. It also discusses the
relationship between attention and new media. The title of this
book includes the word "today", because the authors sought to
address recent trends and potential future directions in the field
of human attention. This book is organised into four chapters. The
first chapter explores the theoretical models of attention from
historical theories to current research. The second chapter
analyses the measurements of attention, with particular reference
to paradigms that have been used to study visual and auditory
attention. The third chapter focuses on two aspects: the neural
basis of attention and electrophysiology, distinguishing the
different functions of attention. The last chapter considers the
interactions between attention and new media, in particular,
television, smartphones, computers, and video games. Both the
novice and expert will be able to understand and learn much from
reading this book. It is aimed at both students and researchers, as
well as professionals in healthcare, education, social care, and
related fields.
This book begins with a theoretical and up-to-date overview on
automatic and controlled processes. Automatic processing is
effortless, fast and fairly error-free. It can be accomplished
simultaneously with other cognitive processes without interference,
it is not limited by attention capacity and it can be unconscious
or involuntary. Controlled processing is effortful, slow and prone
to errors but -- at the same time, flexible and useful to deal with
new tasks. Some automatic processes are thought to be
pre-programmed or innate and include the encoding of temporal or
spatial relationships, frequent monitoring and the activation of
word meaning. Other cognitive processes become automatic with
practice. The second part deals the shift from controlled to
automatic processing as the core of the access to complex thinking.
When somebody starts learning, attention is allocated in order to
fulfil task requirements. Performance requires controlled
processing. When training proceeds, performance requires less
vigilance, it becomes faster and faster and errors decrease. This
is defined automatisation. Automatisation concerns both perceptual
and motor skills and cognitive processes. The essence of the book
is that high load in the coding of the stimuli results in reduced
perception of distractor stimuli because there is insufficient
capacity to process them all. The controlled processes rely on and
negatively influence higher mental functions, such as working
memory, which are required to maintain current priorities and to
choose between them, and also rely on complex thinking because this
latter ask for an efficient working memory system.
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