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attention
Your focus defines the limits of your reality.
The bottleneck model of attention suggests you process only a fraction of available sensory input.
You cannot attend to every input at once; your brain filters information early to prevent overload. This selective process is why you can focus on a conversation in a crowded room but fail to notice the background changing.
You only ever experience a curated version of the world.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Donald Broadbent, 1958, Filter Model of Attention
- What the check found
- The claim accurately reflects the core concept of Donald Broadbent's 1958 Filter Model, which defined selective attention as a bottleneck process filtering information before semantic analysis.
- Confidence
- Well replicated
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