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The Attention Span of the Brain By: Bryce Thornton

The Attention Span of the Brain By: Bryce Thornton. How long do you pay attention and what do you mostly pay it to. How long do you pay attention. Does it matter to learning if we pay attention? The short answer to this is YES it does.

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The Attention Span of the Brain By: Bryce Thornton

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  1. The Attention Span of the BrainBy: Bryce Thornton How long do you pay attention and what do you mostly pay it to.

  2. How long do you pay attention • Does it matter to learning if we pay attention? The short answer to this is YES it does. • The attention span of the brain is 10 minutes. Why 10 minutes? Because that is typically when our mind starts to wonder off track.

  3. Can I have your attention? • While you are reading this neurons inside your brain are simultaneously carrying messages each attempting to grab your attention. Few will succeed in doing so, some will partly fail and others completely.

  4. A Trinity of Networks • Three systems in the brain allow us to pay attention. They can scan the environment, allow us to orient ourselves toward a stimulus and control what we do next. • The Alerting Network: the right dorsolateral pre-frontal cortex. Anterior cingulate cortex. Frontal and parietal activity. • Orienting Network: Frontal eye fields. Temporietal lobe. Pulvinar and superior colliculus • The Executive Network: Pre-Frontal cortex. Basal Ganglia.

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  6. Read This • CIAIRSUSAKGBFBINSA At first this seemed to be a jumble of letters but as you look at it more closely your brain begins to pick out pieces of the jumble it recognizes from memory. Why? Because the brain recognizes patterns. Remembering something we have seen before or heard is a very useful survival trait.

  7. Multi-tasking • Your day is probably hectic because you are interrupted by small things while trying concentrate on one task. You probably think that you are multi-tasking but that is actually impossible for the brain to do in fact you are just switching tasks.

  8. Task Switching= Errors • You make three times more errors on tasks when interrupted.

  9. Task Switching=More Time • It takes four times longer to complete a task when interrupted.

  10. What WE Mostly Pay Attention To • The brain pays a great deal of attention to emotional events. And it remembers them. Any “emotionally competent stimulus” causes the amygdala to tag the information with a dopamine, like a note you leave yourself to remind you of something. • The most common things we pay attention to are: Sex, Threat and Pattern Matching. • The main questions your brain asks are: Can I eat it? Will it eat me? Can I mate with it? Will it mate with me? Have I seen it before? • The color we give most our attention to is red. Red represents danger and blood.

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