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ATTENTIONAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does attentional mean?
• ATTENTIONAL (adjective)
The adjective ATTENTIONAL has 1 sense:
1. of or relating to attention
Familiarity information: ATTENTIONAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to attention
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Domain category:
psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)
Pertainym:
attention (the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others)
Context examples
Besides, a cognitive response also occurs since, for lying, we have to think, to plan our excuses, to analyze the context…, and that causes a cognitive charge in us, a strong demand for attentional control which translates into an increase in the temperature of the forehead.
(The most reliable scientific model to date for detecting when a person is lying, based on thermography, University of Granada)
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