The phrase "attentional items" is not commonly used in written English and may be unclear in meaning.
It could be used in contexts discussing psychology or cognitive science, particularly when referring to items that capture or require attention.
Example: "In our study, we focused on the attentional items that participants found most engaging during the experiment."
Alternatives: "attention-related items" or "items of focus".
The structure of cognition: attentional episodes in mind and brain.
Serial visual search tasks, such as the task we use, require a series of endogenous attentional shifts from item to item (Wolfe, 1994).
CBQ Attentional Focusing (6 items; Cronbach's α = 0.71) measures a mother's perception of her "child's capacity to maintain attention focus on task-related channels" (e.g., "When picking up toys or other jobs, usually keeps at the task until its done").
The different curve types cannot be attributed easily to alternative factors such as differential attention to the stimulus conditions or item-specific effects; all 3 types of tuning occur under the same anchor deviant manipulation of conceptual distance, and therefore, attentional processing or item effects should affect each condition in the same manner.
Wu, R. et al. Searching for something familiar or novel: ERP correlates of top-down attentional selection for specific items or categories.
These findings suggest that the other-species effect modulates the nature of representations, but preserves the attentional selection of target items based on these representations.
Experiment 2), the visual system can no longer rapidly distinguish foods from nonfoods and the attentional bias towards food items disappears, as was the case in Experiment 2. This view is further supported by the finding that there was no overall bias towards food items in experiment 2, even though the foods were visually slightly more conspicuous than the nonfood items.
Finally, we investigated the potential effect of spatial location of the CVS items on attentional allocation by analyzing letter detection as a function of their position in the display, since it has been suggested that letters located in the inferior hemifield should be detected more often [17], [18].
Future research may determine whether these effects can extend to other measures of distraction for example, attentional capture by singleton items during search (e.g., Lavie & De Fockert, 2005; Theeuwes & Burger, 1998) or attentional capture by entirely irrelevant distractors (e.g., Forster & Lavie, 2008a, 2008b)—and to loading maintenance in other modalities.
However, when the speech item reaches the preattentive sensory memory and is compared with a generic attentional set containing relevant speech items (such as one's own name), attention can nevertheless be drawn.
