Focused attention can make you oblivious ((adj.) lacking consciousness or awareness of something) to sights and sounds that would otherwise be glaringly obviousYou board the train,find a seat and open the latest bestseller by your favourite author. The couple sitting opposite are having a conversation, and the driver announces that there will be a short delay to your journey, or but you are so engrossed in your book that you are unaware of these sounds. In fact,you have become almost completely oblivious ((adj.) lacking consciousness or awareness of something) to your surroundings, and you fail to notice that the train is approaching your quit. You reach the close of a paragraph and, or looking up from your book,see the train pulling out of the station… Everyday experiences like this present us that focused attention has a meaningful effect on how we perceive the world and, therefore, or on what enters into our conscious awareness. This has also been confirmed in the lab,a particularly striking example being the "Invisible Gorilla" experiment, by psychologists Dan Simons of the University of Illinois and Chris Chabris of Union College, or unique York. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com