{"id":10078,"date":"2018-05-02T14:18:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T18:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=10078"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T16:56:18","slug":"why-things-attract-our-attention-dr-jim-davies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2018\/why-things-attract-our-attention-dr-jim-davies\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Things Attract Our Attention &#8211; Dr. Jim Davies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Why Things Attract Our Attention &#8211; Dr. Jim Davies\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Jim Davies, of Carleton\u2019s Institute of Cognitive Science, is interviewed on the podcast \u201cLife With a Sixth Sense\u201d about why we find things compelling.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/nawfel-djari\/why-things-attract-our-attention-with-dr-jim-davies\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Jim-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Jim-2-1.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Jim-2-1-160x50.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Jim-2-1-240x75.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Jim-2-1-768x241.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Jim-2-1-400x126.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/255\/Jim-2-1-360x113.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Davies, of Carleton\u2019s Institute of Cognitive Science, is interviewed on the podcast \u201cLife With a Sixth Sense\u201d about why we find things compelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16608,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078\/revisions\/16608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}