Attention (disambiguation)
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Attention
Attention
Attention is the cognitive process of paying attention to one aspect of the environment while ignoring others. Attention is one of the most intensely studied topics within psychology and cognitive neuroscience....

is the mental process involved in attending to other objects.

Attention may also refer to:
  • Attention seeking
    Attention seeking
    Enjoying the attention of others is quite socially acceptable. In some instances, however, the need for attention can lead to difficulties. The term attention seeking is generally reserved for such situations where excessive and "inappropriate attention seeking" is seen.-Styles:The following...

    , behavior which is intended to attract attention from others
  • Attention span
    Attention span
    Attention span is the amount of time that a person can concentrate on a task without becoming distracted. Most educators and psychologists agree that the ability to focus one's attention on a task is crucial for the achievement of one's goals....

    , the amount of time a person can concentrate on a single activity
  • Selective attention, the process by which only a subset of stimuli received by our sensory organs are selected to enter the consciousness
  • Attentional bias
    Attentional bias
    Several types of cognitive bias occur due to an attentional bias. One example is when a person does not examine all possible outcomes when making a judgment about a correlation or association...

    , a type of cognitive bias
  • Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
    Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
    Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a developmental disorder. It is primarily characterized by "the co-existence of attentional problems and hyperactivity, with each behavior occurring infrequently alone" and symptoms starting before seven years of age.ADHD is the most commonly studied and...

    , a developmental disorder
  • Adult attention-deficit disorder
    Adult attention-deficit disorder
    Adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is the common term used to describe the neuropsychiatric condition attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder when it is present in adults. Up to 60% of children diagnosed with ADHD in early childhood continue to demonstrate notable ADHD symptoms as...

    , attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder present in adulthood
  • Continuous Partial Attention
    Continuous Partial Attention
    Continuous partial attention is the process of paying simultaneous attention to a number of sources of incoming information, but at a superficial level. The term was coined by Linda Stone in 1998...

    , a concept that refers to constantly paying attention to different things, but only partially
  • Inattentional blindness
    Inattentional blindness
    Inattentional blindness, also known as perceptual blindness, is when a person fails to notice some stimulus that is in plain sight. This stimulus is usually unexpected but fully visible. This typically happens because humans are overloaded with inputs. It is impossible to pay attention to every...

    , is the phenomenon of not being able to see things (as of a cognitive filtering process) that are actually there.

  • Attention management
    Attention management
    Attention management refers to models and tools for supporting the management of attention at the individual or at the collective level , and at the short-term or at a longer term ....

    , the practise of using automation and user interface techniques to provide greater context and control supporting people in being more attention effective (better at allocating their cognitive resource in short or long term).
  • Secure attention key
    Secure attention key
    A secure attention key is a special key or key combination to be pressed on a computer keyboard before a login screen must be trusted by a user. The operating system kernel, which interacts directly with the hardware, is able to detect whether the secure attention key has been pressed...

    , a key combination entered before a login screen is presented
  • Attention To Detail
    Attention To Detail
    Attention To Detail was a Warwickshire-based British software house that endured nearly 15 years, from its foundation by five University of Birmingham graduates in September 1988 to their liquidation in mid-2003...

    , a Warwickshire-based British software house
  • Principles of attention stress
    Principles of attention stress
    The Principles of Attention Stress is a user interface design theory to measure the amount of attention that is required to perform certain tasks in a web application...

    , a user interface design theory
  • Attention Profiling Mark-up Language, an XML-based format for capturing a person's interests and dislikes.

  • Attention economy
    Attention economy
    Attention economics is an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity, and applies economic theory to solve various information management problems....

    , an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity.
 
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