preattend means to attend ahead of time; to pay attention to or consider in advance.
Etymology
From pre- + attend.
verb
- To attend ahead of time; to pay attention to or consider in advance.“While it had been previously concluded (Posner, 1980) that preattended locations are reached after shorter (manual) reaction times in comparison with non attended ones, the investigators mentioned above found, on the other hand, that saccadic reaction times were delayed for attended target locations.”