attentional
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- attentionality noun
- attentionally adverb
- inattentional adjective
- inattentionally adverb
Example Sentences
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When you look at that waterfall, it doesn’t capture all of your attentional resources.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
"The kinds of things that we do on an everyday basis tend to heavily use those executive attentional networks," Strayer said.
From Science Daily • Jan. 29, 2024
But intentionally or not, it served a potentially useful role for the defense: a reminder that SBF may have an attentional disorder powerful enough to require medication four times a day.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2023
Chan School of Public Health, asserts that this is especially useful in helping children with attentional issues and that trees can help them focus more.
From National Geographic • Oct. 9, 2023
But one of the things Dr. Watson and others have begun to understand is that people whose performance suffers less—who are, in effect, better “multitaskers”—see a lower load on their attentional networks.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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