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What does it really mean to have a short attention span? What\u2019s going on inside the brain?<\/p>\n

Wendy Huddleston, associate professor in 51ÁÔÆæ\u2019s College of Health Sciences, has teamed up with faculty and students from both 51ÁÔÆæ and the Medical College of Wisconsin to form the Milwaukee Attention Group. Together, they are investigating how differences in attention affect performance on a variety of tasks that involve vision, hearing and movement.<\/p>\n

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Alex Swanson, an undergraduate researcher in Wendy Huddleston’s Visuomotor Laboratory, analyzes brain imaging data.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The inability to sustain attention erodes people\u2019s quality of life and may keep them from living independently.<\/p>\n

Attention deficit can accompany conditions such as Alzheimer\u2019s disease, autism spectrum disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and stroke or brain trauma. People living with it have difficulty carrying out the simplest of tasks, like crossing a busy street, said Huddleston.<\/p>\n

The goal is to knit together behavioral experiments, brain modeling and different kinds of brain imaging of healthy brains, in order to identify common neurophysiological mechanisms in people with normal attention.<\/p>\n

With this knowledge, they then plan to expand the research into abnormal or disrupted attention in order to develop protocols and strategies for managing the condition. It also will create a specific data set that does not currently exist.<\/p>\n

Collaborators include Adam Greenberg, 51ÁÔÆæ assistant professor of psychology, and Ted DeYoe, professor of radiology at the Medical College. Both study the process of attention, but in different ways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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