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disposition > cognition > attention

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attention  

Definition

  • The cognitive disposition to focus on a selection of environmental stimuli or cognitive representations to improve their processing.

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Scope note

  • Attention doesn’t have a commonly accepted definition. Many definitions exist in the scientific literature.

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Anderson, B. (2011). There is no such thing as attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00246

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Anderson, B. (2023). Stop paying attention to “attention.” WIREs: Cognitive Science, 14(1), e1574. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1574

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Cowan, N., Bao, C., Bishop-Chrzanowski, B. M., Costa, A. N., Greene, N. R., Guitard, D., Li, C., Musich, M. L., & Ünal, Z. E. (2024). The relation between attention and memory. Annual Review of Psychology, 75, 183-214. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-040723-012736

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Di Lollo, V. (2018). Attention is a sterile concept; iterative reentry is a fertile substitute. Consciousness and Cognition, 64, 45–49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.02.005

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Fawcett, J. M., Risko, E. F., & Kingstone, A. (Eds.). (2015). The handbook of attention. MIT Press.

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Hommel, B., Chapman, C. S., Cisek, P., Neyedli, H. F., Song, J.-H., & Welsh, T. N. (2019). No one knows what attention is. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 2288–2303. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01846-w

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Kaldas, A. (2022). Attention: A descriptive taxonomy. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 44(4), 63. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-022-00538-3

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Krauzlis, R. J., Wang, L., Yu, G., & Katz, L. N. (2023). What is attention? WIREs Cognitive Science, 14(1), e1570. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1570

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Lachaux, J.-P. (2013). Le cerveau attentif. Odile Jacob.

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Long, N. M., Kuhl, B. A., & Chun, M. M. (2018). Memory and attention. In J. T. Wixted (Ed.), Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience (1st ed., pp. 285–322). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119170174.epcn109

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Maquestiaux, F. (2024). Psychologie de l’attention (3ᵉ éd.). De Boeck.

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Mole, C. (2021). Attention. In E. N. Zalta (Ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2021). Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University. https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2021/entries/attention/

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Mole, C., & Henry, A. (2023). What is attention? Adverbialist theories. WIREs Cognitive Science, 14(1), e1588. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1588

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Narhi-Martinez, W., Dube, B., & Golomb, J. D. (2023). Attention as a multi-level system of weights and balances. WIREs Cognitive Science, 14(1), e1633. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1633

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Schwartz, S. T., Yang, H., Xue, A. M., & Wagner, A. D. (in press). Attending to remember: Recent advances in methods and theory. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 09637214251339452. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214251339452

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

  • • Tsotsos, J. K. (2019). Attention: The messy reality. The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, 92(1), 127–137.

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Watzl, S. (2023). What attention is. The priority structure account. WIREs Cognitive Science, 14(1), e1632. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1632

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Wu, W. (2024). We know what attention is! Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 28(4), 304-318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2023.11.007

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: closed

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  • Frank Arnould

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