Neural mechanisms behind shifts of attention

Attention is a limited resource. Most of the time, people are interested in figuring out how best to use attention to our advantage: how to make sure we are registering the important things, while paying less care to other, less salient stimuli. Being able to effectively control attention contributes to our ability to study well and react quickly to new stimuli in the environment. However, there are also circumstances in which people would want to use the limited resource of attention to distract and trick people. Magicians, for example, take advantage of people’s limited attention. According to the Posner model, the attentional network has three main modules: alerting, orienting, and executive attention (Demacheva et. al, 2012). These modules…

activities, it generates Beta waves. These Beta waves are of really low amplitude, and are the fastest of the tours different brain waves (www.Scientificcomedian.com,2017). The frequency of Beta waves are characteristics of a strongly engaged mode (www.Scientificcomedian.com,2017). A person in an active conversation would be in Beta. A debater would be in high Beta. A person making a speech, a teacher, a talk show host would all be In Beta when they are engaged in their work. The frequency of…