What happens in your brain when you pay attention?（每日一篇・聆聽）

日期：2025.5.15

節錄自：What happens in your brain when you pay attention? - Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar

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今天挑選的TED Talk是我私心喜歡的neuroscience～很有趣，但是如果從中間開始聽會有一點點難，建議大家從頭開始聽聽～

指引：先按以上的連結指定的錄音內容，今天我們會聆聽2分45秒至4分18秒，你也可以提早開始聽聽（建議！），熱身一下～做聆聽練習的時候，不要開字幕，邊看下面的文字，一邊在紙上寫上答案，看看內容播完後自己答對了多少題。有需要的話可以調慢錄音的語速或多聽幾次～

2"45

So to see what happens in your brain when you pay overt attention, I asked people to look directly in one of the (1) and pay attention to it. In this case, not surprisingly, we saw that these flickering squares appeared in their brain (2) which was coming from the back of their head, which is responsible for the processing of your (3) information. But I was really interested to see what happens in your brain when you pay covert attention. So this time I asked people to look in the middle of the screen and (4) moving their eyes, to pay attention to either of these squares. When we did that, we saw that both of these flickering rates appeared in their brain signals, but interestingly, only one of them, which was paid attention to, had (5) signals, so there was something in the brain which was handling this information so that thing in the brain was basically the activation of the (6) area. The front part of your brain is responsible for higher cognitive functions as a human. The frontal part, it seems that it works as a (7) trying to let information come in only from the right flicker that you are paying attention to and trying to (8) the information coming from the ignored one.

4"18

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答案

1. squares
2. signals
3. visual
4. without
5. stronger
6. frontal
7. filter
8. inhibit

答對多少了呢？留言告訴我吧！♡