Sentence examples for failure of attention from inspiring English sources
I had experienced a failure of attention and self-control.
Perhaps it is a failure of attention — there are times when I notice my own distraction while reading, and can, in a way, feel myself forgetting.
According to the scientific account, losing things represents a failure of recollection or a failure of attention: either we can't retrieve a memory (of where we set down our wallet, say) or we didn't encode one in the first place.
Interestingly, when commenting on the findings, Dr John Eastwood, joint author of the research, said: "All instances of boredom involve a failure of attention". And although career burnouts are normally associated with high-flyers who become disillusioned, those being 'under challenged' can also feel unstimulated.
However, the misfitting candidates in the static test could be due to, as McNamara (1996), p. 177 pointed out, "failure of attention in the test-taking process, guessing, anxiety, poor test item construction and the like".
It's a failure of attention".
Michael Erard, author of "Um... Slips, Stumbles and Verbal Blunders and What They Mean" (that title has too many ands; he mistitled), differentiates the "doesn't know better" errors due to ignorance, failures of attention or knowledge from the "knows better" errors (which you would correct if given the chance to revise).
Lapses refer to less serious failures of attention or memory such as taking the wrong exit on a roundabout after misreading the signs or having no recollection of the road you have just been travelling or where you parked your car.
That is, if plant blindness is the result of a failure of visual attention, reduced attention to plants should be manifest in our AB task as improved detection of T2 targets when plants are used as T1 targets relative to when animals are used.
This interference effect is interpreted as a failure of selective attention to filter out the irrelevant syllable.
