Selective attention is the process of directing our awareness to something for a period of time while ignoring irrelevant information or any other source of distraction.
Although selective attention makes our thinking more efficient, it can also lead us to filter out important information and distort our perception of the world. The Baader–Meinhof phenomenon is an example of such biased attention.
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