Do not disturb! How the brain filters out distractions
Friday, July 4, 2014 - 20:31
in Psychology & Sociology
You know the feeling? You are trying to dial a phone number from memory ... you have to concentrate ... then someone starts shouting out other numbers nearby. In a situation like that, your brain must ignore the distraction as best it can so as not to lose vital information from its working memory.Scientists can now give us some insight into just how the brain manages this problem.