Attention Training Colours: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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Practices that may help
- Attentional cueing for critical features
Direct attention explicitly to the features that define a category during early learning.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy. - Selective attention to individual sounds
Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical - Contrast training
Study pairs of similar examples that differ on exactly one critical feature to sharpen discrimination.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Use colors and images to encode categories and relationships
Assign distinct colors to different first-level branches and use simple images at key nodes to activate visual memory.
Mind Mapping: Visual Thinking for Learning and Creativity - The Formula First-Session Task and Between-Session Noticing
Assign between-session observation tasks that direct attention toward what’s already working.
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works - Spaced perceptual review
Revisit previously trained perceptual categories at expanding intervals to prevent decay.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind
Perceptual learning is the improvement of discrimination and recognition through practice — training the perceptual system to detect distinctions that were previously invisible. Philip Kellman’s research shows it can be induced rapidly with well-designed training software and produces durable, transfer-ready expertise that complements conceptual instruction. - Enable grayscale display mode on your phone
Turn your phone screen to black and white — this reduces the visual reward signal that drives compulsive checking.
Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design - Rapid attention shifting between sounds
Switch attention between sound sources on cue, making each shift deliberate and immediate.
Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- When I look at an example, my eye gets grabbed by the obvious surface stuff
- When I try to lock onto one thing, my attention slides off it within seconds and I have to keep dragging it back
- There are two things in this field that look almost identical to me, and I confuse them constantly
- My maps come out as a wall of same-colored text that all blurs together when I look back at it
- All day my attention goes straight to what went wrong
Related concerns
- Attention Training Benefits
The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy.
- Attention Training Progression
The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy.
- Attention Training Visual
The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy.
- Attention Focus Training
Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
Selective attention to individual sounds
- Attention Switching Exercise
Deliberately focus on one distinct sound source among several and hold attention there.
- Attention To Detail Training
The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy.
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