From Attention to Meaning

From Attention to Meaning PDF Author: Todd Oakley
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039114429
Category : Attention
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Book Description
Of all the tasks you perform, perhaps none is more consequential for the performance of other tasks than paying attention. When you attend, you perceive. When you attend and perceive, you remember. When you attend, perceive, and remember, you learn. When you learn, you have the option of acting deliberately. Perceiving, thinking, learning, deciding, and acting require the constant adjustment of the attention system. The author proposes a model of the greater attention system as comprising three distinct but interdependent sub-systems: the signal system, the selection system, and the interperso.