I’m reading Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open, and just completed Chapter 3, “Your Attention Please.” In it, he discusses the many facets of attention, and I found myself having trouble keeping them all squared away. It made me wonder why there wasn’t a diagram of some sort to help express the relation between these various elements.
So I drew a diagram, if only to help me keep it together.
After drawing the diagram, I realized why there might not have been one in the book. Making a clear sketch wasn’t easy. Oh well.
Cool – I’m waiting for this book to arrive from Amazon.
That’s a great sketch. The ‘sustain’ portion is called vigilance in cog psych…
This an excellent chart that seems to stand on its own, but I am sure it will be more helpful I have my book in my hands and I am reading. Please feel free to share any other charts or diagrams that help make things clearer for yourself, this one has been great.
Not everyone is a visual learner, Peter. 😉
Gawd, somebody get Hugh Dubberly on the phone. Stat!
Great diagram. Thanks.