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blueyes · 2024-08-06 · Original thread
This is only tangential, but Adam Gazzaley's The Distracted Mind (2016, MIT Press) provides an excellent anatomy of focus and attention, working memory, goal management and overall cognitive control, then places them in the context of modern technology to discuss how people can fight distraction.

https://www.amazon.com/Distracted-Mind-Ancient-Brains-High-T...

It's the first time I read someone properly explain all the parts and tasks involved in attentional control in the service of achieving goals.

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