selective attention
Britishnoun
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They also took objective tests measuring short-term memory, selective attention, and physical performance.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 25, 2026
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
But in each of these cases the action of selective attention is comparatively involuntary, passive, and even unconscious, not having anything of the character of a conscious striving to compass some end.
From Illusions A Psychological Study by Sully, James
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