Drawn to Distraction: Anxiety Impairs Neural Suppression of Known Distractor Features in Visual Search

When searching for a target, it is possible to suppress the features of a known distractor. This suppression may prevent distractor processing altogether or only after the distractor initially captures attention (i.e., search and destroy). However, suppression may be impaired in individuals with attentional control deficits, such as in high anxiety. In this study (n = 48), we used ERPs to examine the time course of attentional enhancement and suppression when participants were given pretrial information about target or distractor features. Consistent with our hypothesis, we found that individuals with higher levels of anxiety had lower neural measures of suppressing the template-matching distractor, instead showing enhanced processing. These findings indicate that individuals with anxiety are more likely to use a search-and-destroy mechanism of negative templates—highlighting the importance of attentional control abilities in distractor-guided search.

“Search and Destroy”

Punk rock, as a movement within popular music, sought to differentiate itself from prior forms of commercial rock in both sound and attitude. Anti-corporate and anti-consumerist in orientation, punk’s guiding maxim of “do it yourself” was about taking control of the means of production and shifting the musical form outside of the nexus of capitalism. This chapter examines the resultant effects and contradictions surrounding the use of punk music in television advertisements from the 1990s to the 2010s. The advertising industry initially kept their distance from punk until after the self-appointed architect of punk style, Malcolm McLaren, began writing original music for ads in 1990. From Iggy Pop seducing Royal Caribbean customers to The Clash hawking Jaguars, punk has proven to be a lucrative way for advertisers to connect to a demographic group who define themselves as anti-consumerist.

Dengue Control Measures in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines

The study determined the implementation of the Department of Health’s Dengue control measures in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines. It specifically sought to answer the following questions: profile of the respondents in terms of age, highest educational attainment, family income, and number of children 12 years old and below; level of implementation of Dengue Control Program in terms of search and destroy, and self-protection measures; and perceptions on Dengue control measures in terms of seeking early consultation and fogging. This study utilized the descriptive-correlational design. There were 398 respondents who were involved in this study. They were mothers, 18 years old and above and from the 15 barangays of Tagbilaran City, Bohol. A modified researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data. This study is a replication of the study of Rufo & Amparado on Dengue control measures conducted in the City of Naga, Cebu, Philippines (2017). The results revealed that majority of the respondents belonged to the age range of 26 to 45 years old, college students, has an income range of 5,000 to 10,000 Philippine pesos per month and have two children below 12 years old. In terms of search and destroy, and self-protection measures, mothers have strong implementation on covering water containers with tight lid as well as storing properly and discarding non-essential containers like bottles, cans, jars and tires. Moderate implementation was on changing flowers from water vases, and cleaning the vicinity from drains and garbage. Mothers have poor implementation measures on the use of mosquito repellants, mosquito nets at daytime, and the use of household insecticide aerosol, insecticide vaporizers, or mosquito coils. Most of them recognized the early signs and symptoms of dengue such as severe headache and fever. Nearly all mothers brought their child to the nearest health facility as part of their initial management every time their child experiences fever. Most of them do not agree on the use of fogging measures to be done against dengue control. There were significant relationships between the profile and: search and destroy measures; self-protection measures; and knowledge on the early signs and symptoms of dengue. In conclusion, dengue prevention and control in the community have not been fully implemented because of the lack of community-based, integrated health control program which are sustainable and health-enhancing. Recommendations include replicating the study and the implementation of the proposed action plan. Recommended citation: Acosta, E. E. & Amparado, M. A. P. (2017). Dengue Control Measures in Tagbilaran City, Bohol, Philippines. Journal of Research in Nursing, 3(1), 20-29.Reference: Rufo, F. J. M. & Amparado, M. A. P. (2017). Implementation of Dengue Control Measures in City of Naga, Cebu, Philippines. IAMURE International Journal of Social Sciences, 19(1), 58-76.

Search and Destroy

This article is an analysis of artist-activist Nancy Spero’s War Series paintings, 1966–70. The author analyzes her paintings from this crucial time period within the context of significant historical events that impacted her artistic development of themes, formal devices, and radical breaks from numerous canonical art tenets. Within the emergence of the American political and artistic Left, Spero’s political radicalism became the foundation of her artistic content and studio practice. From this foundation, as an early feminist artist, Spero produced a wide-ranging figurative oeuvre that pioneered a new lexicon of image/text and figure/ground conjunctions, overturning the prescriptive universalist ideals of modern art.

Search and Destroy

This chapter discusses the impact of the 1960 CBS documentary The Violent World of Sam Huff, which treated professional football as a painful workplace, and NFL Films’ subsequent reshaping of that story to celebrate the sport’s spectacular aspects, ignore its physical toll, and mute individual players’ ability to capitalize on their images. In the hands of Ed and Steve Sabol, professional football, rather than any individual player, was the product on display. NFL Films rendered the sport’s violence impersonal, a matter of technique, and its focus on the skill and expertise necessary to play muted the notion of football as a job. By 1967, thanks to NFL Films, football looked and sounded different on TV than it had in 1957, and it meant different things.