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Neuroscience

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You view your past self as a complete stranger.
A 2009 study found that brain activity patterns when thinking about your future self resemble those for thinking about…
You cannot process two rapid events as separate occurrences.
The attentional blink occurs when a second target is missed if it appears within 200 to 500 milliseconds of the first …
Your brain misses information for a split second daily.
The attentional blink is a temporary deficit in reporting a second target when it follows a first target in rapid succ…