{"pk":24121,"title":"Attention in high-performance cognition is goal-directed, selective, focused, and sustained","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We introduce the concept of high-performance cognition as a domain-general function of acquiring and performing cognitively demanding skills to a high level. We conduct a survey among academic experts to identify key attention categories of high-performance cognition: by independent consensus they highlight the importance of goal-directed attention. Selective, focused, and sustained attention are strongly associated at slightly less complete consensus. They qualify their ratings with free-text reflections. Our work offers a new framing for skilled performance and its underlying cognitive processes.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Cognitive Neuroscience; Psychology; Attention; Intelligent agents; Learning; Skill acquisition and learning; Survey"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1c7226h0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Benjamin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cowley","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Helsinki","department":""},{"first_name":"Aila","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kirjanen","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Helsinki","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T13:00:00-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24121/galley/13715/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24121/galley/20943/download/"}]}