Regarding absorption, people high in need for cognition may find it easier to devote their attentional processes exclusively to intellectual tasks.

Depersonalization disorder is associated with cognitive disruptions in early perceptual and attentional processes.

This contrasts to controlled attentional processes that require conscious control in order to respond to unique situations.

It has also been argued that attentional processes during unconscious thought affect processes critical for decision making.

The visual system does not have the capacity to process all inputs simultaneously; therefore, attentional processes assist to select some inputs over others.

Additionally, its amplitude is influenced by selective attention, and thus it has been used to study a variety of attentional processes.

Although sensory gating is largely automatic, it also occurs within the context of attentional processes.

In the study of attention, psychologists distinguish between preattentitive and attentional processes.

While at Freiburg he started a psychology laboratory and began publishing papers on a number of topics including attentional processes, memory, learning, and perception.

M. R. Leary and others describe boredom as "an affective experience associated with cognitive attentional processes."