The ability, on an ongoing moment-to-moment basis while driving, to identify and allocate attention to the most relevant information, especially embedded when within a visually complex scene and in the presence of a number of distractors.
Allows one to focus purposefully & for an appropriate length of time on incoming data that will lead to productive learning.
order by term] level: Comprehensive (3) The process by which the human brain screens out stimuli that cannot be processed by short term memory, so that only a manageable amount of information passes to it from sensory memory.
the ability to maintain alertness to specific stimuli in the environment despite the presence of internal or external distractors
voluntary attention that occurs consciously, and associated with top-down processing
Ability to focus on the most important aspect of a situation without becoming distracted. [Click Here To Return To List
The perceptual processes by which we select certain input, but not others, for recognition.
Selective attention is a state of consciousness which involves focusing on a specific aspect of a scene while ignoring other aspects. Selective attention can be conscious (as when one chooses to attend to an interesting object, such as a television, instead of a less interesting one, such as a coffee table) or unconscious (as in a scene of a green field with a single red tulip - the tulip will receive attention initially). Often, people believe they have taken in an entire scene when, in reality, they had only processed the area they were attending to and only had a general gist of the rest of the scene.
