Attention
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This ability to focus our
attention
on something other than the present is really amazing.
Thank you very much for your kind
attention.
Make sure you pay
attention
to them.
What cue do you pay
attention
to?
The first embrace is something that we think, "Oh, this is very easy," but it's actually getting harder, and that's paying
attention
to the world around us.
Another saying that I'm sure you have all heard around: Video games lead to
attention
problems and greater distractability.
Okay, we know how to measure
attention
in the lab.
How good your
attention
is determines actually how fast you resolve that conflict, so the young guys here at the top of their game probably, like, did a little better than some of us that are older.
So clearly playing those action games doesn't lead to
attention
problems.
Actually, those action video game players have many other advantages in terms of attention, and one aspect of
attention
which is also improved for the better is our ability to track objects around in the world.
Keep your eyes fixated and expand, pull your
attention.
So your typical normal young adult can have a span of about three or four objects of
attention.
Your action video game player has a span of about six to seven objects of attention, which is what is shown in this video here.
So in the same way that we actually see the effects of video games on people's behavior, we can use brain imaging and look at the impact of video games on the brain, and we do find many changes, but the main changes are actually to the brain networks that control
attention.
So one part is the parietal cortex which is very well known to control the orientation of
attention.
The other one is the frontal lobe, which controls how we sustain attention, and another one is the anterior cingulate, which controls how we allocate and regulate
attention
and resolve conflict.
Because as your
attention
shifts to your cell phone, you are actually losing the capacity to react swiftly to the car braking in front of you, and so you're much more likely to get engaged into a car accident.
They have totally different effects on different aspects of cognition, perception and
attention.
So it's the same way, like those action video games have a number of ingredients that are actually really powerful for brain plasticity, learning, attention, vision, etc., and so we need and we're working on understanding what are those active ingredients so that we can really then leverage them to deliver better games, either for education or for rehabilitation of patients.
Now, at this point, a number of you are probably wondering well, what are you waiting for, to put on the market a game that would be good for the
attention
of my grandmother and that she would actually enjoy, or a game that would be great to rehabilitate the vision of my grandson who has amblyopia, for example?
I'd like to leave you with that thought, and thank you for your
attention.
No one was paying
attention.
Some people were paying attention, but for the wrong reasons.
He told me that, of bin Laden's many crimes, this was, in his mind, one that didn't get enough attention, that he took this word, this beautiful idea.
And of course when science says cheese and chocolate help you make better decisions, well, that's sure to grab people's
attention.
Sure, it is involved in positive emotions like love and compassion, but it's also involved in tons of other processes, like memory, language, attention, even anger, disgust and pain.
Maybe someday we will, but until then, we have to be careful that we don't let overblown claims detract resources and
attention
away from the real science that's playing a much longer game.
Just like all great stories, our fears focus our
attention
on a question that is as important in life as it is in literature: What will happen next?
Now, many events can be subject to either construal, kind of like the classic figure-ground reversal illusions, in which you can either pay
attention
to the particular object, in which case the space around it recedes from attention, or you can see the faces in the empty space, in which case the object recedes out of consciousness.
Now I had this picture taken, and it was put up on my Facebook page last week, and somebody wrote in, "Huh, why does he have him standing at
attention
like that?"
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