selective attention

British  

noun

1. psychol the process by which a person can selectively pick out one message from a mixture of messages occurring simultaneously

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selective attention

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

Reading reality TV requires selective attention — or inattention, more to the point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2017

Such selective attention is common in high-stress situations.

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2017

This kind of selective attention to facts is wearily familiar to longtime observers of the U.N.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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 James Sully

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