- Introduction
- The Components of Attention
- Attention Skills
- Difficulties Experienced
- Complications
- Things You Can do to Help Yourself
- More Ways to Help Yourself
- What is Happening on the Inside
- From the Outside
- Caring for Your Brain Environment
Introduction
Most of us understand that attention includes the ability to focus on a task or a thought, but we often don’t consider that it is also a complex thinking ability that includes many different skills.
Many different parts of the brain manage these skills. When brain injury disrupts the executive systems, there can be complicated outcomes and effects. Everyone will experience unique and distinct problems.
One of the key functions of attention is to process all aspects of incoming information from the inner and outer environment. It is attention which selects what to process and what to ignore, and is therefore an essential part of helping us to manage feelings of flooding or being overwhelmed.
When people talk about problems they have with ‘filtering,’ what they are really describing is the challenges that arise because the brain isn’t making the automatic selections it once did.
For example, the brain should be orienting attention to the pertinent information that would support us knowing what is salient to the moment. It is the ability to maintain attention which helps us to know what to listen to and what to see.
The ability to multi-task is part of the cognitive process that include attention processing, so we can listen to one person and monitor what other people are doing and saying close by.
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