Preattend
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To attend ahead of time; to pay attention to or consider in advance.
"While it had been previously concluded (Posner, 1980) that preattended locations are reached after shorter (manual) reaction times in comparison with non attended ones, the investigators mentioned above found, on the other hand, that saccadic reaction times were delayed for attended target locations."
Example
More examples"While it had been previously concluded (Posner, 1980) that preattended locations are reached after shorter (manual) reaction times in comparison with non attended ones, the investigators mentioned above found, on the other hand, that saccadic reaction times were delayed for attended target locations."
Etymology
From pre- + attend.
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