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.
And, when we increase certain chemicals in our brain and body, like epinephrine, like dopamine, then we also allow our visual system to be in a state of looking out at particular locations in our visual world.
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Native comments, Twitter mentions, and Reddit threads about this claim — surfaced together so the conversation isn't fragmented across platforms.
Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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When we are focused on a particular point in visual space or a particular goal or horizon. All those systems, our blood pressure, epinephrine and indeed dopamine, get recruited to put us into a state of readiness and willingness to go pursue things in that extrapersonal space.
When our visual attention is very diffuse, all of that relaxes, and we tend to be more comfortable staying in the place that we are, in our peripersonal space