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FOCUSING STRATEGY [2 records]

Record 1 2020-02-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

Cognitive distraction refers to a strategy for deliberately distracting from unhelpful mental images by focusing on an unrelated image.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie cognitive
  • Comportement humain
CONT

Les résultats indiquent que les stratégies adaptatives de type distraction cognitive (manipulation de ses états mentaux en mettant son attention sur ses pensées) augmentent avec l'âge [...]

Spanish

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Record 2 1988-09-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
CONT

Focusing strategies utilize pragmatic considerations to enormously constrain the matching process.

OBS

See also "attention focusing heuristic".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
DEF

Attentes au niveau sémantique de ce qui a des chances d'être prononcé (...). Elles permettent de réduire efficacement le nombre d'hypothèses en compétition.

OBS

Voir aussi "focalisation" et "focalisateur" en reconnaissance de la parole et de l'image.

Spanish

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