The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
we have essentially two attentional spotlights meaning we can pay attention to two things at the same time but probably not five and we can merge those spotlights and we can make them more intense so to speak or we can dim them and make them more diffuse
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well I think that feeling is as far as I know is consistent with what we understand about how attention can you know how it amplifies the visual signals or other signals that are coming into our brains
we have effectively two spotlights of attention and that we can merge them so I can place all my attention on you and what we're talking about in your face Etc I can SP split my attention between you and you know something over there in the corner or I can take that second Spotlight of attention and place it on myself like oh you know like I'm I need to move to the side because I've got a little you know you know maybe an itch on my thigh or something like that so but I don't think we have three spotlights that we can work with very easily anyway maybe we could train that up but that we don't naturally have more than two spotlights of attention