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We talk about an “attention crisis,” blaming poor academic performance on students’ attention deficits.

But are long-term traits (ADHD symptoms) really to blame? Or is it our immediate focus?

We test this - by measuring brain-to-brain synchrony as students learned from short educational videos. 🧠
October 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
As we listen to good stories over the holidays, did you know that our eyes move, pupils dilate and heart rate goes up and down in unison with the people that listen to the same story?

Check out these videos and tell me, what makes our eyes move?
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Bidirectional brain-body interactions during natural story listening
Bidirectional brain-body interactions during natural story listeningJens Madsen and Lucas C. Parra, Cell Reports, 2024, Vol 43, Issue 4 It is pretty wild to think about, but our eyes move when we l…
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December 28, 2024 at 1:18 PM