Selective attention
A) improves the perception of stimuli that are its focus.
B) has no effect on the quality of perception.
C) seems to depend on thalamic mechanisms.
D) seems to depend on changes in receptors.
E) blocks out, just slightly, the perception of those stimuli that are its focus.

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Selective attention improves the perception of stimuli that are its focus by allocating more processing resources to them and filtering out distractions.

Selective Attention