28 October 2013

What is ATTENTION?

What is ATTENTION?

Attention refers to how we actively process specific information present in our environment, in other words, focusing on a certain thing despite the surroundings. An example of this is focusing our senses on someone speaking and not noticing changes in the things around.
Attention can easily trick us, by not making us see obvious things as we are focusing on another process. In the example above, we are focusing our attention on someone speaking. Behind him a man dressed up like a penguin can go behind him, and as we are not focusing on the surroundings, only on the person speaking we will not notice the penguin. Because of this we can say that attention is limited as we can only focus on one thing at a time. We focus on what counts so attention works like a spot light.






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  2. Attention is a very interesting topic and I feel you just skimmed the surface... What about writing about misdirection or attention deficit? really cool blog! keep it up!

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