Concept information
Preferred term
attention (psychology)
Definition(s)
- Attention is what helps us to maintain perception, thought, and behavior despite distraction. There are many varieties of attention, each with a different purpose and dependent on different brain mechanisms in order to function. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; Attention]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- attention and consciousness
- attention and emotion
- attention and medical diagnosis
- attention and memory
- attention disorders
- bistable perception
- cell phones and driving
- change detection
- cognitive influences on attention
- consciousness
- covert attention
- cross-modal attention
- divided attention
- effect of attention on perception
- effect of breakdown on attention
- eye and limb tracking
- eye movements during cognition and conversation
- film (cinema) perception
- magic and perception
- object-based attention
- perceptual development: attention
- physiological attention
- rapid serial visual presentation
- selective attention
- spatial attention
- theories of attention
- top-down and bottom-up processing
- visual search
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URI
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