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Mind Hacks
By Tom Stafford, Matt Webb
November 2004
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The Brain Punishes Features that Cry Wolf
The act of focusing on just one object goes hand in hand with actively suppressing everything you have to ignore. This suppression persists across time, in a phenomenon called negative priming
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