Dr. Amishi Jha
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 4 Jul
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And that notion of advantaging perception through attention, very real.
We see that when we look at brain imaging studies, when we look at brainwave recordings.
Right now, for example, as I look at you, the parts of my brain that are doing face processing are more active because I'm getting the visual input from you.
And everything else around your face is a little dulled out.
I'm not getting strong input from that.
So the auditory input is...
going to be increased, and then everything else that follows from that.
So because you're honing in on certain words, your comprehension of those words is going to be better.
The thoughts that you have based on those words is going to be more fine-grained.
The memories that might get elicited by those words, everything else follows from the fact that you're getting this better input from what it is that you're paying attention to.
The flashlight, which is selective attention.
The floodlight, the alerting system.
And the juggler, which is executive functioning.
Okay.
This trio of functions.
The first one we already talked about.
This flashlight metaphor describes it.
We might sometimes, we might call that focus.
Okay.
We say we focus.
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