Tag: attention
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Inattention Blindness: You don’t even see a lot of what you are looking at.
If you are reading this online, first follow this link and watch the video, then come back. You would think that if you are looking in a particular direction then you see whatever is there, as long as it is light enough. Unfortunately not. Inattention blindness is the term given to the fact that we…
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Multitasking is a myth – so don’t even think about it!
When I state that multitasking is a myth, I am not talking about chatting to a friend on the phone whilst you stir a pot with one hand and close a cupboard door with your foot. I mean mental multitasking: we cannot pay proper attention to more than one thing at a time. The brain…