Attention and aging: Wendy A. Rogers

Abstract

As far back as 1890, William James claimed that, "Everyone knows what\nattention is" (James, 1950, p. 403). However, some of us may identify more\nwith what one of my graduate students lamented in a seminar on attention: "No one seems to know what attention is" (Anonymous graduate student, 1996). Part of the confusion may be due to the fact that attention is a\nmultidimensional construct. Thus, even though he claimed we all knew\nwhat it was, James (1950) provided a fairly lengthy definition of attention: Consider the following examples.

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