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attentional

American  
[uh-ten-shuhn-uhl] / əˈtɛn ʃən əl /

adjective

  1. Psychology. relating to the mental state or faculty of attention.


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"Like digital memes, there may be limits to its attentional staying power, especially as we become more and more inundated with AI slop."

From Barron's ● Oct. 26, 2026

"Between attentional biases and depressive symptoms, we looked at the way that they were mutually predicting one another across the time points, which is especially novel and hasn't been done before."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026

One way seems to be through the “distributed attentional focus” that music inspires, where we concoct images in time with the sound.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

But it’s the simple ones, known as vigilant attention and attentional control, that affect our driving abilities.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025

“The attentional limits we saw with pilots apply to drivers of cars. It was an important first step.”

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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