Overview
“Attention” is one of those terms that suffers from being used so often that it has numerous definitions put forward by different institutions.
From Lindsay, 2020:
“Attention is the important ability to flexibly control limited computational resources. It has been studies in conjunction with many other topics in neuroscience and psychology including awareness, vigilance, saliency, executive control, and learning.”
From Krauzlis et. al, 2023:
“We define attention as ‘the set of evolved brain processes that leads to adaptive and effective behavioral selection.’ Our emphasis is on understanding the biological and neural echanisms that make the behavioral properties of attention possible.”