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Andrew Huberman || Optimize Your Brain
The Psychology Podcast
Eye Movements - How Do They Affect Attention?
Cognive focus follows mental focus and, excuse me, visual focus. And so what we've been studying is how tightening or broadening our literal field of view using our eyes, can allow people to calm themselves or increase their levels of alertness. Some people recognize this as the main thrust behind e m d r i, movement disensationry processing. Conversely, i deliberately bring my eyes to what's called a virgente point, where i bring my eyes together at a common sight, and i start to look at that particular place. That engages a circuit in the brain stem leading to increases in alertness and actually leads to increases in cognitive focus.
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