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  2. Attentional shift - Wikipedia

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    However, one area was shown to be specific to covert attention, which was the right dorsolateral cortex; typically associated with voluntary attention shifts and working memory. One should question whether this additional activation has to do with the selected task for the covert condition, or rather if it is specific to a covert shift of ...

  3. Attention - Wikipedia

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    Attention may be differentiated into "overt" versus "covert" orienting. [50] Overt orienting is the act of selectively attending to an item or location over others by moving the eyes to point in that direction. [51] Overt orienting can be directly observed in the form of eye movements.

  4. Orienting system - Wikipedia

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    The brain pathway that orients visual attention to a stimulus is referred to as the orienting system.There are two main types of visual orientations, covert (exogenous) which occurs when a salient environmental change causes a shift in attention and overt (endogenous) which occurs when the individual makes a conscious decision to orient attention to a stimuli [1] During a covert orientation of ...

  5. Clandestine operation - Wikipedia

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    While secrecy and stealthiness are often desired in clandestine and covert operations, the terms secret and stealthy are not used to formally describe types of missions. Some operations may have both clandestine and covert aspects, such as the use of concealed remote sensors or human observers to direct artillery attacks and airstrikes. The ...

  6. Posner cueing task - Wikipedia

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    This method is used to differentiate overt and covert attention. Overt attention involves directed eye movements, known as saccades, to consciously focus the eye on a target stimulus. Covert attention involves mental focus or attention to an object without significant eye movement, and is the predominant area of interest when using the Posner ...

  7. Clandestine HUMINT and covert action - Wikipedia

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    "Political warfare is the logical application of Clausewitz's doctrine in time of peace. In broadest definition, political warfare is the employment of all the means at a nation's command, short of war, to achieve its national objectives. Such operations are both overt and covert.

  8. Covert operation - Wikipedia

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    A covert operation or undercover operation is a military or police operation involving a covert agent or troops acting under an assumed cover to conceal the identity of the party responsible. [ 1 ] US law

  9. Interpersonal deception theory - Wikipedia

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    The sender's overt (and covert) communications are affected by the overt and covert communications of the receiver, and vice versa. IDT explores the interrelation between the sender's communicative meaning and the receiver's thoughts and behavior in deceptive exchanges.