The Effect of Different Attentional Focus Instructions during Finger Movement Tasks in Healthy Subjects: An Exploratory Study
Table 1
Attentional focus under the neutral, control condition. Note that the table reports a detailed explanation of attentional focus adopted by subjects during the neutral, control condition. EFA is external focus of attention; IFA is internal focus of attention.
Subject
“What’s your focus during the control condition?”
Code
(1)
“…I was thinking to my fingers…”
IFA
(2)
“…Sometimes I focused to my fingers, sometimes to the sequence of keys…”
IFA/EFA
(3)
“…I was thinking to the motion of my fingers…”
IFA
(4)
“…I reflected to my hand…”
IFA
(5)
“…I started to focus on the movement of my fingers, but afterwards I focused to the keys…”
IFA/EFA
(6)
“…I considered the motion of my fingers…”
IFA
(7)
“…I was focusing to my fingers…”
IFA
(8)
“…I was thinking to the sequence of keys…”
EFA
(9)
“…The movement of the fingers captures my attention…”
