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focal attention

active concentration on particular stimuli to the exclusion of others. Information that is within one’s scope of attention is said to be in focal attention. Much research is devoted to determining the information capacity of focal attention and to understanding how it interacts with various memory systems after its capacity is exceeded. Also called focused attention. See also selective attention.

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weak central coherence

weak central coherence

see central coherence theory.