Contemporary Research on Attention Facilitation Effect within the Dynamic Attending Theory: Issues and Perspectives


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The results of recent international studies within The Dynamic Attention Theory (DAT) have opened up great prospects for the development of therapeutic methods that use temporal patterns of rhythmic stimulation to model the attention facilitation effect (AFE) in cognitive and specialized language tasks. However, research within the DAT is developing in local directions and still remains less noticeable to a wide range of researchers. In particular, no systematic review and meta-analysis of behavioral and psychophysiological studies of AFE within the DAT have been conducted. This review examined the DAT, namely, its specificity, provisions, mechanisms of attention selectivity, and main research paradigms. We reviewed current research on AFE within the DAT. Studies within the correlational approach, as well as studies of AFE in rhythmic impact paradigms, were considered. Within the latter, we identified two blocks: general cognitive functions and language processes. In the first block, we examined studies of AFE on perception, as well as on perception and memory together, and in the second block, AFE on syntax and phonology. It was found that most studies focus on children and young adults, which limits the possibility of generalizing the results to other age groups. In addition, studies within the syntactic direction have shown contradictory data regarding the syntactic and modal specificity of AFE, and have also focused only on the study of the auditory modality of AFE. The review also showed the limitations of research in constructing an experimental paradigm, which is manifested in the choice of only one mechanism of attention selectivity described in the dynamic attention theory. Thus, this work emphasizes the need for further research to gain a deeper understanding of AFE, as well as to expand the age groups and modalities included in the studies.

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Maksim O. Markevich

Sirius University of Science and Technology

Author for correspondence.
Email: markevichmaksim92@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0009-0006-4137-0552

Postgraduate Student, Junior Researcher, Scientific Center for Cognitive Research

1 Olympiysky Ave., Sirius urban-type settlement, Federal Territory “Sirius”, Krasnodar Territory, 354340, Russian Federation

Olga V. Sysoeva

Sirius University of Science and Technology; Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of RAS; Higher School of Economics

Email: olga.v.sysoeva@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4005-9512
SPIN-code: 2139-6619

PhD in Psychology, Head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology of Typical and Atypical Development, Scientific Center for Cognitive Research, Sirius University of Science and Technology ; Leading Researcher, Laboratory of Human Higher Nervous Activity, Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology, Russian Academy of Sciences

1 Olympiysky Ave., Sirius urban-type settlement, Federal Territory “Sirius”, Krasnodar Territory, 354340, Russian Federation; 5A Butlerova St., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation; 20 Myasnitskaya St., Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation

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