Pronunciation Challenge Focus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills #5

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When you use your top-down attention to focus on something, your brain activates inhibitory mechanisms to block out competing stimuli. It can’t do this forever, though; these mechanisms eventually tire just like the muscles in our body, and this leads to something called Directed Attention Fatigue.

Key Vocabulary

1. attention

attention

[əˈtenʃn] (n.)

2. focus

focus

[ˈfəʊkəs] (v.)

3. inhibitory

inhospitable

[ˌɪnhɒˈspɪtəbl] (adj.)

4. compete

compete

[kəmˈpiːt] (v.)

competence

[ˈkɒmpɪtəns] (n.)

5. stimulus

stimulus

[ˈstɪmjʊləs] (n.)

stimulate

[ˈstɪmjʊleɪt] (v.)

6. muscle

muscle

[ˈmʌsl] (n.)