ACADEMIC KEYWORDS
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When an
immediate threat appears, our mind focuses on the
things that are really important. The brain releases chemicals that
make the mind more alert and active when attention is needed. If
you know you are about to speak in front of 200 people, you are
likely to be thinking about nothing else other than what you want
to say. You are unlikely to be thinking about what you are going to
have for dinner tonight.
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When people
have faced a fear, some have commented on
the feeling of time slowing down – something that actually lasts for
one or two seconds can feel like twenty or thirty seconds. Obviously
time does not actually slow down, so what is happening to our
brain? Well no one knows for sure, but some attribute the feeling
of time slowing down to the part of the brain that creates a more
detailed memory. So when we look back at the event, the details
make it feel like it lasted a long time.
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