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The 66 pages that link to Attention, each with the reason it gives.

• William JamesRelated: James analyzed attention as an active selection that helps organize conscious experience.

• PerceptionRelated: It changes which sensory signals receive enough processing to guide perception.

• Working memoryRelated: Attention helps determine which information enters and remains in working memory.

• Sleep deprivationRelated: Sleep deprivation makes sustained attention especially unstable, producing missed signals and lapses.

• Cognitive psychologyRelated: It determines which information receives further cognitive processing.

• Social learning theoryRelated: Observers must attend to a model’s behavior for it to be learned.

• DeliriumRelated: Delirium prominently disrupts the ability to direct and sustain attention.

• Cognitive loadRelated: Attention determines which task information receives processing, but is not itself load.

• IntrospectionRelated: What introspection can report depends partly on what receives attention.

• Neural correlates of consciousnessRelated: Attention can alter neural responses without determining whether the information is consciously experienced.

• Transcendental MeditationRelated: The practice uses a mantra while allowing attention to settle without forceful concentration.

• Cognitive scienceRelated: Its limits help explain why cognition selects some information while neglecting other input.

• ImaginationRelated: Attention can stabilize, elaborate, or redirect an imagined scene.

• Observational learningRelated: An observer must notice a model’s actions to learn from them.

• ArousalRelated: Arousal can alter attention, but being activated does not guarantee focused attention.

• Functional neurological disorderRelated: Symptom changes with attention help explain clinical signs and inform rehabilitation strategies.

• SubconsciousRelated: Attentional limits help explain why some processed information never enters awareness.

• AudienceRelated: An audience exists as a gathering, but its attention may vary across members.

• CognitionRelated: Attention determines which incoming information receives further cognitive processing.

• SoundscapeRelated: Attention shifts the perceived foreground without changing the physical sound field.

• Situational awarenessRelated: Attention determines which environmental cues enter awareness in the first place.

• Cognitive neuroscienceRelated: Brain studies investigate how neural systems prioritize some signals over others.

• Sensory processingRelated: Attention modulates which sensory signals receive enhanced processing.

• Mental imageryRelated: Attending to an image can stabilize details and guide its transformation.

• Relaxation techniqueRelated: Focusing attention can interrupt cycles of worry and support relaxation exercises.

• Sexual fetishismRelated: Focused attention on a fetish may strengthen its role in sexual response.

• Environmental storytellingRelated: Narrative clues only work when players notice them amid competing visual details.

• Locus coeruleusRelated: Norepinephrine from the locus coeruleus helps tune responsiveness to salient information.

• Sensory perceptionRelated: Attention can shape which sensory inputs receive further processing.

• Screen timeRelated: Rapidly changing or interruptive media can compete for attention during other activities.

• Hand-eye coordinationRelated: Attention prioritizes relevant visual details while a hand movement is underway.

• Jiddu KrishnamurtiRelated: He distinguished choiceless attention from concentration imposed by will.

• Pain catastrophizingRelated: Pain-related attention can reinforce rumination and amplify perceived threat.

• Altered state of consciousnessRelated: Shifts in attention can reshape awareness without eliminating consciousness.

• Jesus PrayerRelated: Practitioners seek to gather attention around the prayer rather than distraction.

• Compassion meditationRelated: Repeatedly directing attention to suffering and care is part of the training.

• Iris MurdochRelated: Murdoch treats just attention as a discipline that can correct self-serving moral vision.

• McGurk effectRelated: Attention to the face or voice can influence the size of audiovisual speech effects.

• Mind (mental faculty)Related: It helps explain how some contents become prominent while others recede.

• WakefulnessRelated: An awake person may be attentive or distracted.

• Simone WeilRelated: For Weil, attention was both a discipline of thought and a form of spiritual openness.

• BoredomRelated: Boredom often develops when attention cannot settle on an available activity.

• ThoughtRelated: Attention determines which information is most available to ongoing thought.

• Dugald StewartRelated: Stewart examined attention as a power that directs and strengthens other mental operations.

• Hand fetishismRelated: Focused attention can make hand details especially salient during attraction.

• Modality effect (memory psychology)Related: Differences in attention to spoken and written items may alter the measured advantage.

• Von Restorff effectRelated: A standout item can attract attention, increasing the chance that it is encoded.

• Joseph JastrowRelated: Shifts in attention can alter which features of Jastrow’s figures dominate perception.

• Konstantin UshinskyRelated: Ushinsky treated the management of attention as a condition of effective learning.

• Mary OliverRelated: Oliver repeatedly treats sustained noticing as a discipline that can alter how life is understood.