Perhaps one of the most important parts of paying attention is filtering out the "noise" that isn't important. A new study published in Nature by researchers at Rush University in Chicago have figured out how the brain does this on a cellular level. The scientists watched the communication between neurons as monkeys completed a visual spatial attention task. The monkeys were able to pay attention by placing more importance on input from some neurons relative to others. This effectively turned up the volume on the important stimuli. The scientists now want to test this in individuals who have attention problems and determine whether or how this process is altered in these people.
Source: http://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/news/2013/06/27_briggs/
Corina, I appreciate your posts to the community, but surely the text on that image is obtuse?
ReplyDeleteJim thanks.
ReplyDeleteBetween the picture, text and article is a correlation, question is ... are u able to pay attention to what's important?
There will be people who read "researchers have discovered how the brain..." and (entirely reasonably) attribute it to to humans that I think my original comment still stands. Really, "THE BRAIN"?
ReplyDeleteThere will be all kind of people who read also there will be all kind of opinions. I'm only responsible for what I say not for what u understand.
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