Dr. Alan Castel

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You stop noticing things around you, like where the nearest fire extinguisher is, let's say.

And I guarantee hopefully there's one somewhere nearby and you've probably walked by it many times, but you stop noticing it.

And it's only until you'll need it, you'll realize, wait, where is it?

And so we've done this study where you have to, instead of me telling you where it is, you have to get up and find it.

And so now you're engaging with the environment.

You're gonna go look for it and be like, gosh, it's been there the whole time.

I've walked by it so many times, I've never noticed it.

And I think that's the difference between seeing something and noticing it.

So someone who studies vision, we know a lot of information reaches the retina, but then how much of it reaches our kind of more conscious level?

And not all of it does.

And I think that's what makes psychology interesting.

Yeah.

And those can be uncomfortable positions, right?

Where it's like, I don't know this.

Am I going to be able to learn it?

And I think that's this metacognitive aspect of when are you aware of that?

And a lot of learning now is unsupervised learning.

You know, it's not that you're going in classrooms and teachers are telling you what to do.

You want to learn a new instrument.

You might do a lot of it on YouTube, right?

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