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attention towards vs attention on

Both are commonly used English phrases, but they're used in slightly different contexts. 'Attention towards' is used when focusing on a specific direction or target, while 'attention on' focuses on a particular subject or topic.
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attention towards

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when referring to directing attention to a specific direction, target, or goal.

Examples:

  • She turned her attention towards the details of the project.
  • The teacher directed the students' attention towards the whiteboard.
  • Jul 2, 2021 ... Abstract page for arXiv paper 2107.00782: Polarized Self-Attention: Towards High-quality Pixel-wise Regression.
  • Selective Visual Attention Towards Oneself and Associated State Body Satisfaction: an Eye-Tracking Study in Adolescents with Different Types of Eating Disorders.
  • Sep 7, 2017 ... Focusing Attention: Towards Accurate Text Recognition in Natural Images. Authors:Zhanzhan Cheng, Fan Bai, Yunlu Xu, Gang Zheng, Shiliang Pu, ...
  • Feb 2, 2017 ... Catching attention towards someone depends. Your long-term success depends on winning the attention of others.“Attention is the most ...
  • Exploring the role of attention towards balance in chronic dizziness: Development of the Balance Vigilance Questionnaire. Eur J Neurol. 2024 Mar;31(3):e16148 ...
  • Sep 3, 2023 ... Afterimage - Drawing too much attention towards "yourself". Spell. Been working on ranger spells to give them a bit more "savant of their own ...
  • May 10, 2024 ... Attention towards chemistry agnostic and explainable battery lifetime prediction. Fuzhan Rahmanian ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3996-4213 ...
  • Aug 1, 2021 ... Focus more attention towards Bedrock Edition. [Bedrock Edition]. Bedrock Edition is far larger and makes far more money than Java. By this ...
  • Sep 26, 2011 ... Do not pay attention towards the gossips of people whom we don't love. Do the sentences have different meanings? and if I use whom instead of ...
  • Primeira Infância Melhor: Transforming the Attention towards the First Years of Life in Latin America: Challenges and Achievements of a Public Policy in ...

Alternatives:

  • focus on
  • concentrate on
  • pay attention to
  • direct attention to
  • shift attention towards

attention on

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used when referring to focusing attention on a particular subject, topic, or issue.

Examples:

  • The presentation drew attention on the importance of environmental conservation.
  • He focused his attention on the details of the contract.
  • Jul 30, 2023 ... Attention on Deck etiquette question. This question is coming from an outsider just wanting to better understand the salute and how to ...
  • Feb 2, 2011 ... Feedback: focusing attention on engagement. Margaret Price Business School, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UKCorrespondencemeprice ...
  • Jun 17, 2020 ... To “put attention on/to something” means to make other people focus on it. Eg put attention on a friend's mistake, so everyone notices the mistake.
  • Feb 15, 2012 ... First, we provide a brief review of the neural bases of selective attention, emphasizing the effects of selective attention on neural ...
  • The effects of contingent teacher attention on study behavior were investigated. Individual rates of study were recorded for one first-grade and five ...
  • Nov 20, 2023 ... For this Santa Monica dog training session we worked with Apollo; sharing tips to train a dog to pay attention on walks or outside the home.
  • The first properly controlled study to identify the influences of selective attention on neural processing used a clever experimental paradigm that manipulated ...
  • ... in a Virtual World. Earning attention on webinars. Image from Shutterstock.com. Share Email LinkedIn Telegram WhatsApp X Facebook. Jul 12 2018 by Wayne ...
  • Aug 4, 2010 ... Hi natives, I need your help in solving this dilemma!!!In school, I was always taught to use "to pay attention ON something", but "to pay ...
  • Aug 19, 2019 ... In this paper, we propose an Attention on Attention (AoA) module, which extends the conventional attention mechanisms to determine the ...

Alternatives:

  • focus on
  • concentrate on
  • pay attention to
  • direct attention to
  • shift attention to

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