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We may take in as many as 11,000,000 bits of information per second of which we process only about 40 (Wilson, 2002). Yet we intuitively make great use of the other 10,999,960 bits. Until reading this sentence, you have been unaware that your shoes are pressing against your feet or that your nose is in your line of vision. Now suddenly, your attentional spotlight shifts. Your feet feel encased, your nose stubbornly intrudes on the page before you. While attending to these words, you've also been blocking from awareness information coming from your peripheral vision. You can change that. As you stare at the X below, notice what surrounds the web-page (the edges of the screen, your keyboard, and so on)[Myers, 2008].
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