When you shift your attention from one thing to another, your brain “blinks” between focusing on the two things. The blinks are short unconscious gaps in visual perception and came as a surprise to the team of psychologists who discovered the phenomenon while studying the benefits of attention.

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When you shift your attention from one thing to another, your brain “blinks” between focusing on the two things. The blinks are short unconscious gaps in visual perception and came as a surprise to the team of psychologists who discovered the phenomenon while studying the benefits of attention.