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#71: The Distraction Crisis & Brain-Enhancing Tools - Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD
The FitMind Podcast: Mental Fitness, Neuroscience & Psychology
What's Going on in the Brain When All This Is Taking Place?
When i started doing research on attention and action in the human brain, which has been almost 20 years ago now, i found that the scientific literature was very imprecise by what it meant when the word distraction was used. So i rell sort of classified it based on my own such a framework, conceptual framework that i constructed,. And so it's basically related to internal and external, and whether goals are involved or not. Let's work through that with examples. Yes, let's bring this into a real world example. The goal is to focus on the conversation, to be engaged deeply. And all oft information around you thoh, maybe this is your first time in a restaurant without
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