Langston, Advanced Cognitive Psychology, Notes 3 -- Attention
 
Attention is the magic that underlies a lot of cognitive psychology theorizing. A quick search of "attention" in the PsycInfo database will result in a lot of hits (over 100,000), but not a lot of definition of what attention is. Textbooks aren't much help. They're required to provide a definition, but the connection between that and research is somewhat tentative. We are going to cheat and think about attention as what it does. Here's a list of for-instances generated mostly top-of-mind, but aided by a quick scan of search results from some selected journals:
We're going to sample some of these phenomena with a set of applied readings. As with perception, our goal is to think about how the application of a little basic attention information can help understand problems.

Advanced Cognitive Psychology Notes 3
Will Langston

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