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🗓️ 31 July 2018
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on YacL. |
0:33.7 | Hi, I'm Scientific American podcast editor Steve Merski. |
0:38.0 | And here's a short piece from the July 2018 issue of the magazine in the section called |
0:43.0 | Advances, Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science, Technology, and Medicine. |
0:48.9 | Eagle Eye by Simon Macon. |
0:52.4 | Our abilities to see things that appear fleetingly, or in cluttered environments, or outside |
0:58.9 | our focus of attention, are all determined by a single perceptual capacity trait that varies |
1:05.0 | among people. |
1:06.3 | That's the finding of a new study. |
1:08.4 | The researchers involved say that these results could one day help |
1:11.7 | scientifically predict an individual's performance in jobs that rely on strong observational skills. |
1:19.2 | Researchers at University College London tested participants on a range of visual tasks. |
1:25.7 | One measured how well people could estimate the number of objects appearing on a screen for a tenth of visual tasks. One measured how well people could estimate the number of objects |
1:28.9 | appearing on a screen for a tenth of a second, a capacity known as subatizing. Others measured |
1:35.0 | the ability to notice small differences between two real-world scenes, to detect a change |
1:41.0 | at a screen's edge while focusing on the center, and to track multiple |
1:45.3 | moving dots among static ones. People who excelled at subatizing also tended to perform |
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