METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ATTENTION Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: medicine, particularly psychophysiology. SUBSTANCE: method involves presenting information fields in random sequence with their areas related as 1:4 and two different numbers of objects to be identified at a relation to 1:2, measuring the time for searching the specified object and estimating the stability of attention by the average time of search in all information fields, the scope of attention by the difference of the time of search in information fields of different area with the same number of objects being identified, and distribution of attention, by the difference in the time of search in the information fields of the same area and a different number of objects to be identified. EFFECT: higher informativeness achieved by differential estimation of stability, scope and distribution of attention. 3 cl, 4 dwg, 2 tbl