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Attention (psychology)

Concentrated mental focus, awareness, or observational consideration.

First in use: ancient / pre-modern
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Attention (machine learning)

A mathematical neural network mechanism that dynamically calculates relevance scores across input sequence components regardless of distance.

First in use: c. 2014

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Which meaning of Attention is the original, and which one is the duplicate riding on its name? Attention (psychology) came first (ancient / pre-modern). Attention (machine learning) arrived in 2014. The data below shows which one owns the word now.

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