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Focus and Decision-Making

5 Lessons

About this course

Learn about the prefrontal cortex and its role in cognition and thinking, how the brain chooses where we place our attention, how multi-tasking is just fast task switching and carries a heavy cost, and how decision-making, thinking and emotion are related..

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Course Structure

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Lesson 1

In this lesson, you'll learn about the prefrontal cortex and its role in cognition and thinking and how the brain chooses where we place our focus. 

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Lesson 2

In this lesson, you'll learn about the costs of multi-tasking and some ways to improve your attention.

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Lesson 3

In this lesson, we take a look at task-switching, an important process mediated by the prefrontal cortex.

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Lesson 4

In this lesson, we look at how decision-making and thinking are related to emotion.

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