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Learning to Pay Attention cahRel Jones | doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050166 Our sensory system is constantly bombarded with inputs, but owing to the brain’s ?nite processing power, we are forced to pay attention to only a tiny proportion of these inputs at any given time. In a new study, Richard Davidson and colleagues report that intensive training in meditation can alter the way in which the brain allocates attentional resources to important stimuli, allowing people to improve their performance on a demanding visual task. In the “attentional blink” task, volunteers were asked to ident