User:Winter-Seesaw1/Attention economy

Attention allows information to be filtered such that the most important information can be extracted from the environment while irrelevant details are left out.

Theory
Research from a wide range of disciplines including psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, and economics, suggest that humans have limited cognitive resources that can be used at any given time, when resources are allocated to one task, the resources available for other tasks will be limited. Given that attention is a cognitive process that involves the selective concentration of resources on a given item of information or stimulus, to the exclusion of other perceivable information, attention can be considered in terms of limited processing resources.