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484: Amishi Jha

Duncan Trussell Family Hour

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What Is the Most Important Thing About Attention?

I've been studying the human brain's attention system for 25 years now, and we a lot about attention. We know that it is an incredibly powerful brain system. It does this by privileging some information over other information. Whatever it is that attention focuses on becomes the centre stage for everything else. So even right now, if i'm looking at you, looking at your lovely face, am not focusing on the what's behind you. If o were able to have a brain cap on me right now and were picking up nurons in the face, processing regions of my brain, there would be one 71, 70, right? Sombodys pad a taton during that t

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