These terms are defined in the following paragraphs, where the dictionary meaning appears italicized.
Attention is the innate process of close, careful, sensory perception.
It implies learning something . Attention is the innate, pattern-matching process of imposing a familiar meaning upon our current sensory experience. It is thus the means of learning, where we notice, select, recognize, interpret and give meaning to current sensory percepts. It manifests the transient, selective, sensory perception of information crucial to our existence. It is the familiar frame around the awareness of what we are just now noticing.