Easily distracted people may have too much brain

Here is a fun article.  As with most studies like this take the results with a grain of salt.

They assessed each person's distractibility by quizzing them about how often they fail to notice road signs, or go into a supermarket and become sidetracked to the point that they forget what they came in to buy. The most distractible individuals received the highest score.

The team then imaged the volunteers' brains using a structural MRI scanner. The most obvious difference between those who had the highest questionnaire scores – the most easily distracted – and those with low scores was the volume of grey matter in a region of the brain known as the left superior parietal lobe (SPL). Specifically, the easily distracted tended to have more grey matter here.

With enough training and practice anyone with a "scatter brain" can learn to focus, the problem is I don't think many people are bothered by it, or even know they have a problem.

Oh look over there, a shiny new motherboard and Core i7 980x that hasn't been overclocked yet!! 

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