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attention
Your attention is limited to one object.
When you are highly focused on a specific task, you may experience 'inattentional blindness,' where you fail to notice unexpected stimuli in your visual field.
The brain does not become blind to everything else in the scene; it only fails to consciously process unexpected or irrelevant stimuli while under high cognitive load.
Your focus is both your greatest strength and your most significant vulnerability.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Mack & Rock, 1998, MIT Press
- What the check found
- The term 'attentional tunnel' is often used in aviation psychology, while Mack & Rock (1998) authored the seminal 'Inattentional Blindness' book regarding unexpected stimuli, not complete visual negation.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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