attentional
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"This part of the brain is like an attentional selection engine. It helps solve the question: 'What is most important information I should pay attention to right now?'"
From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026
"Between attentional biases and depressive symptoms, we looked at the way that they were mutually predicting one another across the time points, which is especially novel and hasn't been done before."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
One way seems to be through the “distributed attentional focus” that music inspires, where we concoct images in time with the sound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
It captures a lot of your attentional focus, but it does so in an all-consuming way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
But one of the things Dr. Watson and others have begun to understand is that people whose performance suffers less—who are, in effect, better “multitaskers”—see a lower load on their attentional networks.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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