For 10 points, name this cognitive ability to focus on tasks impaired in a namesake deficit disorder.
Precues can be used to study this process in the Posner test. The stimuli "money" and "river" changesdd the interpretation of "bank" in a study by MacKay that challenged the "leaky filter" models of this process that are modulated by Treisman's attenuator. Daniel Kahneman proposed a model of this process that focuses on the mental effort it takes to process stimuli. An earlier model of this ability formulated by Broadbent posits a bottleneck filter and cannot account for the (*) cocktail party effect that allows multiple conversations to be processed at once. The load theory describes this skill as a limited resource that must be divided when multitasking. For 10 points, name this cognitive ability to focus on tasks impaired in a namesake deficit disorder.
Precues can be used to study this process in the Posner test.
attention