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 

• ATTENTIONAL (adjective)

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)