ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the human information processing framework of attention and/or awareness in the learning process, and focuses on such models and even provides an overall description of the process before we begin to discuss the various tenets of non-SLA attentional models. It also discusses succinctly some of the major theoretical models of attention in cognitive psychology or science and neuroscience. It explores the process of attention in relation to short- and long-term memory, working memory, and whether learning without attention is possible. The chapter concludes that selective attention to the target item was broken at some point in time during the processing, which could have led to some attention being paid to the flankers, leading to the formation of memory traces that could be recalled. They comment on these functions that include the following: Schmidt summarizes the basic assumptions of attention taken from the non-SLA field in a more direct manner.
