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Visual processing is so intense that once we see something salient such as a color or a shape, we start to tune out other visual information—never mind sounds—in order to make sense of what we see.
Scott Berinato • Good Charts
Using brain scanning and behavioural experiments, researchers at the Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neurosciences at Vanderbilt University have identified a unified attentional bottleneck in the human brain, which impacts both perception and action. Simply put, we’re bad at dividing our attention between different tasks.
Ness Labs • Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind
The researchers dubbed this phenomenon inattentional blindness.
Zoe Chance • Influence Is Your Superpower: How to Get What You What Without Compromising Who You Are
The gorilla study illustrates two important facts about our minds: we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
critical point that bears repeating is that attention is a limited-capacity resource—there are definite limits to the number of things we can attend to at once. We see this in everyday activities. If you’re driving, under most circumstances, you can play the radio or carry on a conversation with someone else in the car. But if you’re looking
Daniel J. Levitin • The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
term “selective attention” describes the idea that as humans, we have an incomprehensible amount of data coming into our brain through our senses. However, our conscious mind filters the information and pays attention to the things that seem relevant or important. It is for this reason that when you buy a new car you start seeing the same model eve
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