CHAPTER XI.

ATTENTION

Its neglect by English psychologists. Description of it.

To how many things can we attend at once? Wundt's experiments

on displacement of date of impressions simultaneously attended to.

Personal equation. The varieties of attention. Passive

attention. Voluntary attention. Attention's effects on

sensation;--on discrimination;--on recollection;--on

reaction-time. The neural process in attention: 1) Accommodation

of sense-organ. 2) Preperception. Is voluntary attention a

resultant or a force? The effort to attend can be conceived as a

resultant. Conclusion. Acquired Inattention.

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