Attention

My friend Julianne suggested Wray Herbert's recent posting on psychological research on attention on his blog, We're Only Human.

The topic is interesting, but I fear it may be another of those situations in which different things are lumped under the same name. Is the attention paid by a cat to motion within a mouse hole the same as the attention paid by a chess grand master to a championship chess game, or the attention paid by a consulting physician to the signs that potential discriminate among different diseases that present with similar syndromes? Are Attention Deficit Disorder and "flow" poles on the same continuum?

Still, the ability of an Einstein to intuit which problems are potentially fruitful and then to attend to them with the depth and doggedness that he apparently excelled are prototypical examples of abilities that would help all those who seek to apply knowledge to development.

In any case, We're Only Human seems a worthwhile blog, and I will return there.