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  2. Attentional shift - Wikipedia

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    Results showed overlap in activated areas for overt and covert attention shifts, mainly in the parietal and frontal lobes. 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 .

  3. Error analysis (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    They can be classified by how apparent they are: overt errors such as "I angry" are obvious even out of context, whereas covert errors are evident only in context. Closely related to this is the classification according to domain , the breadth of context which the analyst must examine, and extent , the breadth of the utterance which must be ...

  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. 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 ...

  6. 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.

  7. Covert facial recognition - Wikipedia

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    Many of these problems only have an effect on the overt recognition of faces and leave the covert recognition intact. Prosopagnosia is a disorder which causes the inability to use overt facial recognition. [9] While people suffering from prosopagnosia often cannot identify whose face they are looking at they usually show signs of covert ...

  8. Empty category - Wikipedia

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    Empty categories exist in contrast to overt categories which are pronounced. [1] When representing empty categories in tree structures, linguists use a null symbol (∅) to depict the idea that there is a mental category at the level being represented, even if the word(s) are being left out of overt speech.

  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.