The phrase "averted attention" is not correct in standard English usage.
It seems to be a mix-up of terms; "avert" typically means to turn away or prevent, while "attention" refers to focus or concentration.
Example: "His attempts to avert attention from the issue only made it more noticeable."
Alternatives: "diverted attention" or "redirected focus.".
Will the phone read that as your attention being willingly averted?
Because the efficacy, when translated into cases averted and deaths averted, is just tremendous.
Direct gaze also captures and holds attention more readily than averted gaze (von Grunau and Anston 1995; Senju et al. 2005; Fox et al. 2007), and facilitates recognition memory for faces, and categorization of facial gender and selected facial expressions (Macrae et al. 2002; Adams and Kleck 2003, 2005; Vuilleumier et al. 2005).
Costs are averted when complications are averted (15).
These metrics include deaths averted and private expenditures averted.
The results were: (1) after encountering an averted head repeatedly, the infants shifted their attention from the adult's face to the moving hand and objects; they oriented to what the adult was attending to.
We also found no regions with an increased response to averted gaze in our control group, again suggesting joint attention mechanisms were not significantly engaged (Williams et al. 2005; Redcay et al. 2010).
These findings may reflect the more general role of parietal cortex in orienting attention [19 21], which is initiated by viewing averted gaze [22 24], and more specifically the role of the right inferior parietal cortex (as a component of the ventral frontoparietal attentional network) in reorienting attention toward behaviorally relevant events [25].
And given the risks the the fragile international financial system, one wonders why developed nations, having averted crisis in their own houses, aren't turning their attention to the growing threat elsewhere.
It is worth noting that averted gaze can also convey communicative intent, particularly in joint attention scenarios where the gaze cue is designed to draw the observer's attention toward, for example, an object in the environment.
With disaster averted Scotland, who have now won four of their past five matches, turned their attentions to a fourth try.
