Usually means: Automatic attention shift toward stimulus.
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Orienting response)

noun:  The orienting response, also called orienting reflex, is an organism's immediate response to a change in its environment, when that change is not sudden enough to elicit the startle reflex.


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