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30-Second Attention Test

For 30 seconds, pay attention to one object such as the breath, your hand, or a clock without getting lost in thought; used to reveal distractibility.

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So, so what happens with our, you know, every time we move our eyes, this is called a, a saccade and we do that about, you know, three times a second or so, uh, just normally, um, there is a, you know, the, the region of motor cortex that, that affects that movement sends what's called an efferent copy of that motor movement, uh, which is, which is used as information that propagates back to visual cortex that suppresses, uh, the data of vision while the eyes are moving.

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