29 Feb attention

The process of focusing one’s perceptual apparatus on a certain input stimulus or set of stimuli. Attention is often associated with sight or hearing, but one can be attentive to tactile stimuli as well as tastes or smells. In the case of NeuroPedia, selective attention is necessary to manage the flood of information.
Keywords: RAS
consciousness
filtering
perception
context
sense
arousal
References: cognition
learning
pattern recognition