Dr. Amishi Jha
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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.
We're really talking about the flashlight, which is we hone in.
We're narrow.
We're restricted.
We have this sense of agency.
We can direct the flashlight.
Okay.
Wherever it is that that flashlight is pointing, we get prioritized information from there.
Everything else is dulled out.
The important thing to think about with that is that it is not only important for the external environment so that we're, you know, like you said, we think about our eyes as attending, but we can use that same resource for the internal environment.
What do you mean?
Yeah.
So if I...
ask you right now to think about what you had for dinner last night.