# Attentional process The process of focusing our attention. It is composed of multiple steps: - Orienting to the stimulus (e.g., a noise that we hear, something that moves in our field of view) - Our brains decode what is happening all the time - This happens at lightning speed - Engaging with the information - Our brains direct our attention to the stimulus - Once our attention focuses on something, our brains start exploring memories and tries to correlate the current event with past events, try to recognize objects, sounds, etc