Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

Ways of Attending: How our Divided Brain Constructs the World

Attention is not just receptive, but actively creative of the world we inhabit. How we attend makes all the difference to the world we experience. And nowadays in the West we generally attend in a rat…

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