Attention
Our environment contains countless stimuli that are competing for our attention. We pay attention to
some of these stimuli and ignore others. In this airplane cockpit there are multiple stimuli competing
for attention, including the instruments, the controls, the visual scene out the window, and messages
from the control tower. It is crucial that pilots pay attention to each of these sources of information.
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