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    Challenges→The function of attention is the management of capacity excess, not the management of capacity limitations.

    If attention were managing excess capacity rather than limitations, early-selection filtering mechanisms like those evidenced in dichotic listening tasks would be explanatorily superfluous.

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    attention(Lockean view; attention is a subset-determining process within consciousness)
    A process that constitutes conscious thinking when conscious thinking occurs in a certain way
    dichotic listening tasks(as used in cognitive psychology experiments)
    Experiments where people listen to two different messages at the same time (one in each ear) and are asked to focus on only one—used to study how attention works.
    early-selection filtering(as used in attention research)
    A theory that your brain filters out unwanted information right at the beginning of processing, before your conscious mind even sees it.
    excess capacity(as used in cognitive science)
    Having more mental resources or processing power available than you actually need to use right now.
    explanatorily superfluous

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    Something that is unnecessary for explaining how or why something works—you don't need it to understand the mechanism.
    limitations(as used in cognitive science)
    Restrictions or constraints on how much information your brain can process at once—like having only so much mental fuel available.

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