The Importance of Attention in Learning

Some of your work is showing that attention shapes learning yeah the way that I would frame that line of work is how do we really know what to attend to it at any given moment. On one hand you can learn what is worthy of being attended to but that also might mean as a result you become a little bit more narrow-minded or at least narrow focused in your attention and you might lose the bigger picture. It's always a balance between how broad you want your attention to be versus how quickly you want to learn because once you diffuse your attention suddenly you're like ah it's too much I can't learn all at the same time so there is this delicate balance between how much to attend