Tuesday, November 24, 2009

How The Brain Filters Out Distracting Thoughts To Focus On A Single Bit Of Information

Laura Colgin is a postdoctoral fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Centre for the Biology of Memory. (Credit: Image courtesy of The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU))

From Science Daily:

Science Daily (Nov. 23, 2009) — The human brain is bombarded with all kinds of information, from the memory of last night's delicious dinner to the instructions from your boss at your morning meeting. But how do you "tune in" to just one thought or idea and ignore all the rest of what is going on around you, until it comes time to think of something else?

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