As you're reading this text, or listening to this podcast - you're paying attention. That's the skill you need to absorb critical information in a dense, overcrowded world. Filter the noise, ignore the distractions and focus on the thing that's going to earn you your lunch. Or help you evade the huge, pointy teeth and becoming some one else's lunch.
Rebecca Lawrence is in her 3rd hear PhD research at the ANU where she's probing into our ability to focus attention. During the show she mentions a visual illusion that tells us something about how cultural background affects what we see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCller-Lyer_illusion
If you want to be part of Rebecca's research, contact her at Rebecca.Lawrence@anu.edu.au. It'll take about half an hour and have some fun along the way. You're eligible if you're
• 18 – 40 years of age
• Have normal or corrected to normal vision
• Identify as being from an East Asian, or Western cultural background.
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