Related Words
This tool helps you find words that are related to a specific word or phrase. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and DescribingWords.io.
Words Related to overt attention
Below is a list of words related to overt attention. You can click words for definitions. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for common-ish words. Here's the list of words that are related to overt attention:
- william james
- working memory
- donald broadbent
- cognition
- psychology
- neuroscience
- michael posner
- midbrain
- cognitive psychology
- dichotic listening
- subjectivity
- objectivity
- arousal
- san pedro la laguna
- consciousness
- superior colliculus
- bottleneck
- brain
- education
- frontal lobe
- neuropsychology
- greek language
- neurons
- vigilance
- philosophy
- executive functions
- train of thought
- attention economy
- electroencephalography
- psychophysiology
- visual perception
- falsifiable
- cognitive neuroscience
- sensory cue
- neuronal tuning
- brainstem
- traumatic brain injury
- mental health
- disorders of consciousness
- artificial intelligence
- saccade
- john b. watson
- neurologic
- juan luis vives
- exogeny
- positron emission tomography
- functional magnetic resonance imaging
- coma
- marcus raichle
- eeg
- endogeny
- large scale brain networks
- zoom lens
- mayans
- visual angle
- daniel kahneman
- inhibition of return
- parietal lobe
- apperception
- temporal lobe
- attentional control
- basal ganglia
- distraction
- behaviorism
- headphones
- ears
- brain damage
- neural correlate
- conceptual model
- gamma wave
- executive system
- jules henry
- indigenous peoples of the americas
- observational learning
- maya peoples
- computer vision
- visual spatial attention
- visual temporal attention
- dorsal attention network
- autism spectrum
- williams syndrome
- inattentional blindness
- change blindness
- daniel berlyne
- nicolas malebranche
- gottfried wilhelm leibniz
- johann friedrich herbart
- sir william hamilton, 9th baronet
- william stanley jevons
- wilhelm wundt
- mental chronometry
- personal equation
- franciscus donders
- sigmund freud
- hermann von helmholtz
- walter benjamin
- the principles of psychology
- ulric neisser
- task switching
- psychological refractory period
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Words Related to overt attention
As you've probably noticed, words related to "overt attention" are listed above. Hopefully the generated list of term related words above suit your needs.
P.S. There are some problems that I'm aware of, but can't currently fix (because they are out of the scope of this project). The main one is that individual words can have many different senses (meanings), so when you search for a word like mean, the engine doesn't know which definition you're referring to ("bullies are mean" vs. "what do you mean?", etc.), so consider that your search query for words like term may be a bit ambiguous to the engine in that sense, and the related terms that are returned may reflect this. You might also be wondering: What type of word is ~term~?
Also check out overt attention words on relatedwords.io for another source of associations.
Related Words
Related Words runs on several different algorithms which compete to get their results higher in the list. One such algorithm uses word embedding to convert words into many dimensional vectors which represent their meanings. The vectors of the words in your query are compared to a huge database of of pre-computed vectors to find similar words. Another algorithm crawls through Concept Net to find words which have some meaningful relationship with your query. These algorithms, and several more, are what allows Related Words to give you... related words - rather than just direct synonyms.
As well as finding words related to other words, you can enter phrases and it should give you related words and phrases, so long as the phrase/sentence you entered isn't too long. You will probably get some weird results every now and then - that's just the nature of the engine in its current state.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used to bring you this list of overt attention themed words: @Planeshifter, @HubSpot, Concept Net, WordNet, and @mongodb.
There is still lots of work to be done to get this to give consistently good results, but I think it's at the stage where it could be useful to people, which is why I released it.
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