Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
27 results found in cognition.
- Visual Attention Span (VAS, Visual Attention Window)
- The number of distinct visual elements that can be processed simultaneously in a single glance. Visual attention span is a cognitive capacity linked to reading ability — when reading, the eyes fixate …
- Visual Attention Split (Split Attention, Divided Visual Attention)
- The cognitive challenge of needing to divide visual focus between two or more sources of information simultaneously. For deaf and hard of hearing people, visual attention split is a pervasive accessib…
- Visual Cognition (Visual Processing, Visual Perception)
- The set of mental processes involved in perceiving, interpreting, and responding to visual information, including object recognition, spatial awareness, motion detection, and visual attention allocati…
- Visual dispersion (Visual splitting, Divided visual attention)
- The cognitive challenge faced by deaf and hard of hearing people when they must simultaneously monitor multiple visual information sources, such as an instructor, presentation slides, a sign language …
- Visual search
- The perceptual task of scanning a visual scene to locate a specific target among distractors. Visual search is significantly affected by low vision, visual field loss, and other visual impairments, as…
- Visuospatial Attention (Visual-Spatial Attention, Visuospatial Processing)
- The cognitive ability to attend to, process, and mentally manipulate visual and spatial information in the environment. Visuospatial attention involves orienting to locations in space, tracking object…
- Working memory (Short-term memory)
- The cognitive system responsible for temporarily holding and manipulating information during complex tasks such as language comprehension, reasoning, and decision-making. Working memory has limited ca…