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The brain is a highly efficient, energy-demanding organ that gets fully utilized and even though it is at full capacity being used, it suffers from a problem of information overload.
So to solve this problem of overload, evolution devised a solution, which is the brain's attention system.
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.
In some sense, it's your brain's boss.
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?
And third, can we do anything about this fogginess, can we train our brain to pay better attention?
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.
In these brain wave recordings, people wear funny-looking caps that are sort of like swimming caps, that have electrodes embedded in them.
These electrodes pick up the ongoing brain electrical activity.
And doing this, we can very precisely plot the timing of the brain's activity.
About 170 milliseconds after we show our research participants a face on the screen, we see a very reliable, detectable brain signature.
It happens right at the back of the scalp, above the regions of the brain that are involved in face processing.
Now, this happens so reliably and so on cue, as the brain's face detector, that we've even given this brain-wave component a name.
The brain is very good at forgetting.
It hooks up all parts of the brain.
And as a result, when we say, "This isn't brain surgery," that pays tribute to how difficult it was for anyone to learn from their mistakes in a field of medicine that was considered so discouraging in its prospects.
And this man with a planetary-sized brain is now serving a 13-year sentence in California.
And in fact, the baby's brain seems to be the most powerful learning computer on the planet.
And we even know something about the way the brain does this.
So what happens when we pay attention is that the prefrontal cortex, the sort of executive part of our brains, sends a signal that makes a little part of our brain much more flexible, more plastic, better at learning, and shuts down activity in all the rest of our brains.
Would you mind taking the brain out, and I just want you to feel something.
And because your brain starter motor began there, now it's got to deal with it.
The brain works by association.
We know, for example, that we now have specialized eye trackers and infrared brain scans, MRI's that can decode the signals that our bodies send out when we're trying to be deceptive.
I have a brain fan out there.
So what I'm going to talk about is why we don't have a good brain theory, why it is important that we should develop one and what we can do about it.
This is not a real brain.
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