{"id":185871,"date":"2024-03-24T00:23:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T05:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/lack-of-focus-doesnt-equal-lack-of-intelligence-its-actually-proof-of-an-intricate-brain"},"modified":"2024-03-24T00:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T05:23:27","slug":"lack-of-focus-doesnt-equal-lack-of-intelligence-its-actually-proof-of-an-intricate-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/lack-of-focus-doesnt-equal-lack-of-intelligence-its-actually-proof-of-an-intricate-brain","title":{"rendered":"Lack of Focus Doesn\u2019t Equal Lack of Intelligence \u2014 It\u2019s Actually Proof of an Intricate Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lack-of-focus-doesnt-equal-lack-of-intelligence-its-actually-proof-of-an-intricate-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Research conducted by Brown University\u2019s Carney Institute for Brain Science illustrates how parts of the brain need to work together to focus on important information while filtering out distractions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a busy restaurant: dishes clattering, music playing, people talking loudly over one another. It\u2019s a wonder that anyone in that kind of environment can focus enough to have a conversation. A new study by researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/brown-university\/\">Brown University\u2019s<\/a> Carney Institute for Brain Science provides some of the most detailed insights yet into the brain mechanisms that help people pay attention amid such distraction, as well as what\u2019s happening when they can\u2019t focus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Frev0000442\">In an earlier psychology study<\/a>, the researchers established that people can separately control how much they focus (by enhancing relevant information) and how much they filter (by tuning out distractions). The team\u2019s new research, published in <em><i>Nature Human Behaviour<\/i><\/em>, unveils the process by which the brain coordinates these two critical functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research conducted by Brown University\u2019s Carney Institute for Brain Science illustrates how parts of the brain need to work together to focus on important information while filtering out distractions. Imagine a busy restaurant: dishes clattering, music playing, people talking loudly over one another. It\u2019s a wonder that anyone in that kind of environment can focus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,42,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}