Insights into Attention Lead to New Training
Cognitive training programs for improving the control, intensity and duration of conscious attention are being introduced into the classroom. For more read this excellent post by Maggie Jackson in the Boston Globe.
Most important for cognitive designers is that these training programs are based on new insights into how the mind works:
”After decades of research powered by fresh advances in neuroimaging and genetics, many scientists are drawing a much clearer picture of attention, which they have come to see as an organ system like circulation or digestion, with its own anatomy, circuitry, and chemistry. Building upon this new understanding, researchers are discovering that skills of focus can be bolstered with practice in both children and adults, including those with attention-deficit disorders. ”
