![]() ![]() Your brain has already stored a model of your environment, so you might not notice something unusual right next to you. Perhaps you have noticed, for instance, that while commuting to work you are thinking about all sorts of things that don’t involve being in the car, train or bus that you ride every day. Your brain fills in the rest on its own, in order to save energy, so everything around you doesn’t immediately jump out and demand focus. As Silva says on the show: It’s as if your attention is a spotlight, and you can only shine it on one thing at a time. But the truth is that the attentional spotlight of your brain is only about the size of your thumbnail about 1/1000th of your field of view. You might think that everything you see is like high-definition TV, that you perceive the world around you in perfect detail. Through perceptual experiments, interactive games and illusions, the show is able to, in a sense, “hack your brain,” Silva said. Jason Silva hosts the series "Brain Games." National Geographic Channel ![]()
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