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Attention

Selective prioritization of some information for processing or action.

thoughtbridgeModerate evidence
IN PLAIN LANGUAGE

Visual salience, learned meaning, goals and context all influence what gets prioritized. A color can contribute, but it is never the only variable.

What “Moderate evidence” means

The pattern has meaningful research support, but its size or reliability depends more strongly on context, population, measurement or competing explanations.

Marker-board illustration created specifically to explain Attention: Selective prioritization of some information for processing or action.VISUAL EXPLANATION · MARKER BOARD
Selective prioritization of some information for processing or action.
EXAMPLE

A red coat may stand out in a gray crowd, while a tiny red warning can still be missed when the viewer is focused elsewhere.

COMMON CONFUSION

Being visually noticeable is not the same as being consciously understood or remembered.

ASK YOURSELF

What is the observer trying to do at this moment?

RELATED CONCEPTS
color × thought × bridgePerception

Processes through which sensory information becomes an experienced and usable representation of the world.

→thought × bridgeWorking memory

A limited system for temporarily holding and manipulating information needed for an ongoing task.

→thoughtAvailability heuristic

Judging frequency or likelihood partly by how easily examples come to mind.

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SOURCES & TRUST

References

Last reviewed

  1. 01
    Color Psychology: Effects of Perceiving Color on Psychological Functioning in Humans

    Andrew J. Elliot & Markus A. Maier · 2014 · Annual Review of Psychology

    Review of color-psychology evidence and its methodological limits.
    Academic source
  2. 02
    Working Memory

    Alan Baddeley · 1992 · Science

    Working memory as temporary storage and manipulation supporting comprehension, learning and reasoning.
    Academic source
What the source labels mean
Primary source
Original work, experiment, standard or historical text.
Academic source
Scholarly research or review published for an academic audience.
Reference source
An expert standard, encyclopedia or institutional explanation that summarizes a field.
General reference
A practical specialist resource useful for application, but not treated as decisive research by itself.