The Neuroscience of “Attention”

What is “attention“ and why did our brains evolve to prioritize things? This is the Episode 0 of the series “Visual Guide to Transformer Neural Networks“ that delved into the mathematics of the “Attention is All You Need“ (Vaswani, 2017) paper. This video discusses the neuroscience and the psychology related aspects of “Attention“. *Visual Guide to Transformer Neural Networks (Series) - Step by Step Intuitive Explanation* Episode 0 - [OPTIONAL] The Neuroscience of “Attention“ Episode 1 - Position Embeddings Episode 2 - Multi-Head & Self Attention Episode 3 - Decoder’s Masked Attention *Credits - Video* 1. Cosmos: Possible Worlds - 2. Transport inside the brain: The basic mechanisms of neuronal trafficking - 3. Zoom Into Eye Effect Premiere Pro - 4. The Beauty Of Earth - 5. Norway | Mountains - 6. Icheon Master Hand - 7. Labs of Cognitive Neuroscience - Nelson Lab - Boston Children’s Hospital - 8. UCSF Dyslexia Center Phenotyping Project - Brain Imaging - 9. Dissecting Brains - 10. Hypatia | The Philosopher - 11. Visual Attention - 12. Optical illusions show how we see | Beau Lotto - 13. Zoom Into Eye Effect [After Effects 2020 Transition Tutorial] No Plugins Required - 14. Baby’s Choice - Toys -Vs- Literally Anything Else - 15. Infant Looking Time Habituation. Activity 2 from “What Babies Can Do“ - 16. Karl Loxley - Never Enough (from The Greatest Showman) [Official Music Video] - 17. Funny Phone Accidents Texting While Walking Fail!1 - 18. TFL Viral - Awareness Test (Moonwalking Bear) - 19. Selective Attention Test - 20. Misdirection and Inattentional Blindness - 21. World’s Most Famous Magic Tricks Revealed! - 22. Smoothini’s Top 7 Magic Tricks Finally Revealed | America’s Got Talent - 23. The art of misdirection | Apollo Robbins - 24. The extraordinary final test to become a Shaolin Master | Sacred Wonders – BBC - 25. Horse Riding Cinematic - Red Scarlet- 26. Hidden Figures Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Taraji P. Henson Movie - 27. 11 | Desiertos-Directors Cut | Directed By Diego Pernía - 28. Inception - Ariadne Learns How To Build Dreams - 29. The Neuroscience of Learning - 30. The Most Insane Piano Pieces (Vol. 1) - 31. Markus Eder’s The Ultimate Run - The Most Insane Ski Run Ever Imagined - 32. Muhammad Ali Dodges 21 Punches In 10 Seconds - 33. Collaborative Video Object Segmentation by Foreground-Background Integration - 34. My Tips for Prompts, Part 1 (Invent Good Prompt for Disco Diffusion) - *Credits - Music* 1. Royalty Free Cinematic Trailer Music | Cinematic Trailer Background Music By Music4video - 2. Whitesand - Eternity (Epic Beautiful Dramatic Emotional Instrumental) [Copyright Free] - 3. Science & Technology Background Music For Presentation No Copyright Royalty Free - 4. Anastasiya Lunes - Desert Rose (Sting Cover Mix) With Lyrics (No Copyright) - 5. Karl Loxley - Never Enough (from The Greatest Showman) [Official Music Video] - 6. Sufi dance -