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selective attention

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Selective attention is the cognitive process by which individuals prioritize and focus on specific stimuli or information from their environment while actively filtering or ignoring other concurrent inputs. As a research concept, it investigates the mechanisms, neural substrates, and behavioral consequences underlying the brain's capacity to select relevant information for further processing amidst distraction, highlighting the limited nature of cognitive resources and the necessity of attentional filtering for effective perception, cognition, and action.

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SA

University of California San Diego

JT

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

SJ

University of California, Davis

SP

Bangor University

ME

Birkbeck, University of London

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University College London

London, United Kingdom

University of California San Diego

San Diego, United States

University of Oxford

Oxford, United Kingdom

Harvard University

Cambridge, United States