Attention (disambiguation)

Last updated June 29, 2025

Attention is the mental process involved in attending to other objects.

Psychology and neuroscience

Attention seeking, behavior which is intended to attract attention from others
Attention span, the amount of time a person can concentrate on a single activity
Selective attention, the process by which only a subset of stimuli received by our sensory organs are selected to enter the consciousness
Attentional bias, a type of cognitive bias
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, a developmental disorder
Adult attention-deficit disorder, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder present in adulthood
Continuous partial attention, constantly paying attention to different things, but only partially
Inattentional blindness, the phenomenon of not being able to see things (as of a cognitive filtering process) that are actually there

Attention management, models and tools for supporting the management of attention at the individual or at the collective level
Secure attention key, a key combination entered before a login screen is presented
Principles of attention stress, a user interface design theory
Attention Profiling Mark-up Language, an XML-based format for capturing a person's interests and dislikes
Attention (machine learning), a machine learning technique that mimics natural attention in organisms

Attention (advertising), the measure of an advertisement's ability to win the audience's attention
Attention economy, an approach to the management of information that treats human attention as a scarce commodity

Sati (Buddhism), a Buddhist conception of attention
At attention, the military courtesy of standing erect when ordered to
Eight Points of Attention, a military doctrine that was issued in 1928 by Mao Zedong
Attention (film), a 1946 Bollywood film