Attention

Attention

• Selective Attention: The ability to focus on specific stimuli while filtering out irrelevant information

• Cocktail Party Effect: The phenomenon of being able to focus on a single conversation in a noisy environment while filtering out other auditory stimuli

• Divided Attention: The ability to process multiple sources of information or perform multiple tasks simultaneously

• Sustained Attention (Vigilance): The ability to maintain focused attention over extended periods of time

• Attentional Capture: The involuntary allocation of attention to salient or unexpected stimuli in the environment

• Automatic Processing: Mental processing that occurs without conscious awareness or intentional effort

• Controlled Processing: Mental processing that requires conscious attention and intentional effort

• Stroop Effect: The delay in reaction time when processing conflicting information, such as naming the color of ink used to print a color word

• Change Blindness: The failure to detect changes in visual scenes when the changes occur during brief interruptions

• Inattentional Blindness: The failure to notice unexpected stimuli in the visual field when attention is focused elsewhere

• Attentional Blink: The temporary impairment in detecting a second target stimulus when it appears shortly after a first target

• Hemispatial Neglect (Unilateral Neglect): A neurological condition in which patients fail to attend to or respond to stimuli on one side of space