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Category: Cognition

  • Attention Works by Turning Distraction Down Not Off
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    Attention Works by Turning Distraction Down Not Off

    Have you ever been deep in conversation at a loud party, only to snap your head around the moment someone across the room whispers your name? This isn’t a glitch in your focus; it’s a sophisticated “backend” antenna at work. That antenna is the attention working at the backend. In the 1960s, psychologist Anne Treisman…

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