Focusing visual attention on distant objects promotes broader focus, while focusing on close objects or internal thoughts promotes fine-grained focus.

“What you see out the window is in one time domain. In the room is a difference time domain. I won't tell you who killed who. But it's very, very interesting. And so the point being that when your visual system is up close, focusing on things up close or internally, you're fine slicing. When you focus on things further away, you're more broadly focusing and so on and so forth.”