Listener Favorites: Adam Gazzaley | The Neuroscience of Attention
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The Evolution of the Distracted Mind
Knowing about sun exposure, even knowing that cigarettes can kill you, doesn't change behaviour frequently. Knowing how top down and bottom up guides your attention is a really important part of awareness. We have this amazing ability as humans to create incredibly complicated, time delayed goals. But our cognitive control abilities are actually very limited. And so realizing these limitations in a deep way, and recognizing them, i think, is really key.
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