Welcome to the next installment of Paying Attention to Attention, the video-mostly portion of the “John Medina’s Brain Rules” substack. This entry continues our discussion about the neurobiology that helps you pay attention to your world - and how the whole thing can be illustrated by a chance encounter with a furry bear.
As ever, there are both uncaptioned and captioned (cc) versions of this video.
Here are a few references for Entry 059:
Cepelwizc, J., and Quanta Magazine. "What a New Theory of Attention Says About Consciousness." The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/09/how-brain-helps-you-pay-attention/598846/ (2019).
Treisman, A., 1964. Selective attention in man. British Medical Bulletin, 20, 12-16.
Broadbent, D. (1958). Perception and Communication. London: Pergamon Press.