Quotes About Attentional

Lastly, these findings tell me that the answer to the question of whether, as a group, MDs are primarily patient-serving or self-serving is . . . yes. They are each, depending on their attentional focus at the time.

Wilson's way of keeping in mind the dual aspects of the Furby's nature seems to me a philosophical version of multitasking, so central to our twentieth-century attentional ecology. His attitude is pragmatic. If something that seems to have a self is before him, he deals with the aspect of self he finds most relevant to the context.

What Susanne Jaeggi has found with the N-back, what Torkel has shown with working memory training, what others have found with meditation, and what we have shown with video games—they are all different ways of getting at the same underlying mechanisms," she said. "We're all training the flexible allocation of executive and attentional resources.