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Attention allows us to notice, select and direct the brain's computational resources to a subset of all that's available.
We can think of attention as the leader of the brain.
Wherever attention goes, the rest of the brain follows.
And over the last 15 years, I've been studying the human brain's attention system.
If it is indeed the case that our attention is the brain's boss, is it a good boss?
First, how does attention control our perception?
And third, can we do anything about this fogginess, can we train our brain to pay better attention?
To have more strong and stable attention in the work that we do in our lives.
A very poignant example of how our attention ends up getting utilized.
He ends up being part of a very large group of people that we work with, for whom attention is a matter of life and death.
And while his body was on that bridge, his mind, his attention, was thousands of miles away.
But before I tell you about what mindfulness training is, or the results of that study, I think it's important to understand how attention works in the brain.
So what we do in the laboratory is that many of our studies of attention involve brain-wave recordings.
It allows us to see the impact that attention may have on our perception.
And what we do is we ask our participants as they're viewing a series of these types of overlaid images, to do something with their attention.
On some trials, we'll ask them to pay attention to the face.
And in this way, we can manipulate attention and confirm that the participants were actually doing what we said.
Our hypotheses about attention were as follows: if attention is indeed doing its job and affecting perception, maybe it works like an amplifier.
And what I mean by this is that when we direct attention to the face, it becomes clearer and more salient, it's easier to see.
We found that when they paid attention to the face, the N170 was larger.
And when they paid attention to the scene, as you can see in red, it was smaller.
If we present stressful images while they're doing this experiment, this gap of attention shrinks, its power diminishes.
And what we found was that, very similar to external stress and external distraction in the environment, internal distraction, our own mind wandering, also shrinks the gap of attention.
It diminishes attention's power.
They tell us that attention is very powerful in terms of affecting our perception.
Where is your attention right now?
To kind of bring it back, I'd like to make a prediction about your attention for the remainder of my talk.
It's a challenge, so pay attention, please.
And we land there often without our awareness, most times without our awareness, even if we want to be paying attention.
Mindfulness has to do with paying attention to our present-moment experience with awareness.
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