Focus Pocus

Brain Games (2011): Season 2: Episode 1

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Brain Games
Focus Pocus

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National Geographic | Nat Geo Channel | Air Date: April 22, 2013
Summary: Think your field of vision is really in focus, or that your brain is focusing on everything happening in front of you? Think again. Your peripheral vision is blurrier than a cell phone camera from 1998! In this episode, host Jason Silva--with the help of deception specialist Apollo Robbins and psychologist Brian Scholl, the director of YaleThink your field of vision is really in focus, or that your brain is focusing on everything happening in front of you? Think again. Your peripheral vision is blurrier than a cell phone camera from 1998! In this episode, host Jason Silva--with the help of deception specialist Apollo Robbins and psychologist Brian Scholl, the director of Yale University's Perception and Cognition Lab--reveals the secrets behind the mysteries of focus and attention. Using the all-American pastime football as a backdrop, they'll demonstrate how your brain is constantly working to select what it thinks is the most important information, and filtering out the rest... as if it was never there.… Expand
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Reality, Game Show, Documentary, Science
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