feature attention

a form of selective attention in which the unit of selection is a distinguishing feature or property of a target item (e.g., the red hair of the person one is looking for in a crowd). Numerous studies have confirmed that focusing on one such feature enhances the discriminability of the item being sought. See also focal attention.

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February 17th 2025

panacea

n. a solution or remedy for everything that is wrong with a given problem or that universally applies to a set of related problems.