selective attention
Britishnoun
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Previous research had shown pigeons learned how to solve complex categorization tasks that human ways of thinking -- like selective attention and explicit rule use -- would not be useful in solving.
From Science Daily • Oct. 25, 2023
Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons famously showed the effects of selective attention in a video that went viral in 2010.
From The Guardian • Mar. 6, 2018
Reading reality TV requires selective attention — or inattention, more to the point.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2017
A series of experiments at Stanford showed that people who regularly multitask are a lot worse at basic tests of spatial perception, memory, and selective attention than people who don’t.
From Slate • Jun. 15, 2016
Besides this comparatively passive play of selective attention, there is an active play, in which there is a conscious wish to gain an end; in other words, the operation of a definite motive.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James
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