Focus Expert – Brian Scholl | Brain Games

the core of attention in focus is two
seemingly paradoxical relationship on
the one hand there’s not enough
information coming in through the eyes
to infer what’s going on out there in
the world as a result the brain has to
be like a detective and on the basis of
the sort of sketchy evidence it gets
from the eyes it has to infer what’s
going on in oral but at the same time
there’s far too much information out
there in the world to focus on and then
you get a second and so every moment we
have to be extremely highly selective
and focus on only a very small amount of
what occurs when you’re driving in your
car braking driving your car talking on
your cell phone we might make a special
effort to check your blind spot but
here’s something you never do you never
make a special effort to see what’s
right in front of you when your eyes are
open why because you’re under the grip
of an assumption of false society you’re
assuming that whatever is right in front
of your eyes as long as your eyes are
open you’ll see but it’s not true in any
visual image there’s just far too much
information for our puny brains to
process or inattentional blindness has
the phenomenon where an unexpected
object no matter how salient it is
that’s right in front of us if we’re not
expecting it and if we’re if our
attention is otherwise engaged but we
will completely fail to consciously
perceive it seeing is certainly the
single most common activity that any one
engages in all day long and we
completely take it for granted we have
completely mistaken assumptions about
how perception was done and so learning
a bit about some of these phenomena can
really make a difference