"overt attention" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to an excessive degree of notice, respect, or admiration given to someone or something. For example: The celebrity received overt attention from the paparazzi as she emerged from the restaurant.
The historical roots of this speech were powerful, but he didn't draw overt attention to them.
The nobles often possessed considerable musical knowledge, but they refrained from paying overt attention to what the musicians were doing.
We do pay more overt attention to candidates' spouses today — not, perhaps, because of more advanced beliefs about marital partnership, but because we've all learned to watch the games strategists concoct to reach the "listless mass".
A wide range of materials were used, including gold, glass and ivory, the art usually drawing overt attention to the materials utilised in the designs.
Various models posit that visual saliency influences initial shifts of covert and overt attention (see ref. [45]).
In this study we examine whether remembering and knowing are related to different patterns of allocation of overt attention as indicated by eye-movements (e.g., 6).
However, the use of overt attention with eye movements is more biologically realistic, such that only the portion of the scene present on the retina is processed.
Scan paths from our simulations of overt attention tended to be attracted to and unable to re-orient away from the right edge of the scene.
Focusing overt attention on particular, and presumably significant, details may produce strong cues that can prompt a remember response during recognition.
Taken together, the findings suggest that the narrowing of overt attention by emotion is one factor that may lead to a heightened feeling of remembering.
The current study reveals that a rich recollective experience is related to a narrowing of overt attention during both encoding and recognition.
