Meditation and Attentional Capturing - What's Distracting You?

Hearing your own name in a crowded room is one example. Hearing someone across the room talking about a topic that is salient also draws your attention. If you are trying to buy or sell a house, and some one use the word zupla on the other side of the room at litinte u k, your attention would be caught as well other house buying sights are available. The zuplA effect represents the conditioned capture of attention - but it shares with the older, hard wired attentional capturing. It's still trying to work out what action is needed. So these examples show us that even if we've decided to focus on one thing, like when we're med