If skilled experts acquire knowledge during automatized performance precisely when focal attention is withdrawn, attention is neither necessary nor sufficient for knowledge acquisition.

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Focal attention(what expert skill bypasses): Conscious, deliberate focus where you actively concentrate on something—like when you're learning to drive and carefully think about each turn.
automatized performance(as used in epistemology and cognitive science): An action or skill you do so well that you don't have to think about it anymore—like typing or riding a bike—where your brain runs the task almost on autopilot.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.): Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
knowledge acquisition(as used in epistemology): The process of gaining new understanding or information about something.

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