Attention research is dominated by methodological individualism

Evidence

The second reframing, which is implicit in the preceding point, entails getting away from an essentially individualist approach to attention. Under the influence of the methodological individualism that jointly characterizes orthodox economics, the experimental psychology inherited from the nineteenth century and recent developments in the neurosciences (with their appended cognitivism), most current analyses relate to the way in which a brain (in the position of subject) moves itself or experiences with respect to a thing or problem (in the position of object). — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 63

Categorization

• DEFINE: Names the shared individualist paradigm across economics, psychology, and neuroscience that an ecological approach must escape.
• XREF: connects to: Radical attention is rooted in proximate 1-to-1 scale practices — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 314; Economic accounts of attention falsely derive the collective from individual activity — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 79

Broader Connections

• Economic accounts of attention falsely derive the collective from individual activity #complicates (0.85) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 79
• Radical attention is rooted in proximate 1-to-1 scale practices #qualifies (0.72) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 314