Neuroscience of Focus with Heather Berlin

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🗓️ 3 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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What makes some people better at focusing? Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly learn about the neuroscience behind concentration and performance with neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD.

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0:00.0	What's going on inside the head of someone that can go beyond themselves?
0:05.0	It's, I think that's something that you can't necessarily consciously control.
0:13.6	So all these other factors are coming into play.
0:16.2	Let's say it's, you know, it's the Olympics and you're running that final race.
0:19.9	And just being in that environment, you know, with the audience and the lights and the
0:24.8	camera, whatever is there is motivating your body.
0:28.0	I mean, we see this in cockroaches when they're like, let's go.
0:34.0	You'll go.
0:37.0	No.
0:38.0	Okay.
0:39.0	So I was not expecting that.
0:41.0	No, no, no, no, no.
0:42.0	No one was.
0:43.0	Okay.
0:44.0	Sorry.
0:45.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:49.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:55.0	Star Talk begins right now.
1:00.0	This is Star Talk Sports Edition.
1:03.0	Neal the grass Tyson here, your host and your personal astrophysicist.
1:07.4	And today we're going to address issues that relate to your power and strength of mind,
1:14.8	especially with regard to high performance athletes.
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