ATTENTION. The subject of attention has until recently been largely confined to the domain of experimental psychology. Researchers have sought to measure and explain such things as the selective capacity of attention, its range and span, the number of...

Attention is an executive process by which inputs are selected for processing. It describes the means by which humans and animals can identify and process important environmental events in a sustained manner, while ignoring others which are irrelevant....

Attention Concentration on a task. Attention is concentration, or perceptive awareness, focused on a stimulus, such as a book or worksheet. During such periods of attention, the individual focuses on the stimuli of the task and ignores other...

In psychology, the act or state of applying the mind to an object of sense or thought. Wilhelm Wundt was perhaps the first psychologist to study attention, distinguishing between broad and restricted fields of awareness. He was followed by William...

The simultaneous allocation of processing resources to multiple channels of information. This might involve monitoring stimuli in two different sensory modalities, or two sources of inputs within a modality. An example is the monitoring of independent...

The allocation of ATTENTION to a location, object or feature of interest, which occurs without overt orientation of the head and/or eyes. See also: covert orienting; covert recognition; spatial attention VERITY...

The differential allocation of processing resources to a single channel of information, such as a sensory modality. See also: attention; covert attention; dichotic listening task VERITY...

In a situation where individuals are exposed to multiple stimuli, some are selected and attention focused upon...

The ability to concentrate upon one phenomenon and exclude other possible phenomena from the immediate...

Attention is the cognitive process of selectively concentrating on one aspect of the environment while ignoring other things. Examples include listening carefully to what someone is saying while ignoring other conversations in a room (the cocktail party...