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Apr 2012
40m 17s
001 - Attention
YOU ARE NOT SO SMART
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In this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast we discuss attention and interview co-author of "The Invisible Gorilla" Daniel Simons. Also, at the end, we eat an Oreo fudge cookie brownie and discuss the foreign language effect.
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