Learning to Attend
“What develops with age and education is not so much the intrinsic precision of the number system, but the ability to use it efficiently without getting distracted by irrelevant cues, such as density or size.”
(p.162)
The cortex is thicker in musicians and when they start playing an instrument at very early age, they get much better at paying attention.
Training in executive control can change someone’s IQ
⇒ dorsolateral PFC
I’ll attend if you attend
Children pay attention when they see voluntary communications from others. So they realize when someone wants to teach them something.
see also
Wie das Gehirn unsere Aufmerksamkeit lenkt
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Erstellt: 27-04-22 14:25