Brain Scans - Is Your Brain Always Operating?

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In brain scans, that myth is you only use ten % of your brain. Myths with bunch of bolone, you're always using your brain. It's always operating. So for you guys running f mri brain scan experiments, you actually have to engage the subject to do this thing and then that thing. You can see the difference in blood flow from one area to another, which is correlated with neral activity. But by the way, as you can imagine, it's not so simple to have a tention net works in default mode because when you want to drive the train, a train of thought. And even whether you're being narrow or broad, and when you're

Research shows we are missing 50 percent of our lives because we aren’t paying attention. Many of us often feel mentally foggy, scattered, and overwhelmed. Why is it that no matter how hard you try, you seem to find yourself somewhere else — if you’re even aware you’ve drifted off to that place.

In this conversation with the acclaimed neuroscientist Amishi Jha, she recounts what her neuroscience research revealed, and shows why whether you’re simply browsing, talking to friends, or trying to stay focused in an important meeting, you can’t seem to manage to hang on to your attention.

Shermer and Jha discuss: the neuroscience of attention; what attention evolved to do; how stress, attention bias, negativity bias, thought flooding, and active listening affect attention; multitasking; the “flashlight” metaphor; mindfulness and well-being, and more…