Pronunciation ChallengeFocus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills #5

Host : Priscilla

Focus! Everyone!

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When you use your top-down attention to focus on something, your brain activates inhibitory mechanisms to block out competing stimuli. It can’t do this forever, though; these mechanisms eventually tire just like the muscles in our body, and this leads to something called Directed Attention Fatigue.

Original Video：Focus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills #5

Key Vocabulary

1. attention

attention

[əˈtenʃn](n.)

2. focus

focus

[ˈfəʊkəs](v.)

3. inhibitory

inhibitory

(adj.)

inhospitable

[ˌɪnhɒˈspɪtəbl](adj.)

4. compete

compete

[kəmˈpiːt](v.)

competence

[ˈkɒmpɪtəns](n.)

5. stimulus

stimulus

[ˈstɪmjʊləs](n.)

stimulate

[ˈstɪmjʊleɪt](v.)

6. muscle

muscle

[ˈmʌsl](n.)

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Pronunciation ChallengeFocus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills #5

Host : Priscilla

Focus! Everyone!

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Challenge History

Total 0 Challenges Completed

Today's Sentence

Video not in English?

When you use your top-down attention to focus on something, your brain activates inhibitory mechanisms to block out competing stimuli. It can’t do this forever, though; these mechanisms eventually tire just like the muscles in our body, and this leads to something called Directed Attention Fatigue.

Original Video：Focus & Concentration: Crash Course Study Skills #5

Key Vocabulary

1. attention

attention

[əˈtenʃn](n.)

2. focus

focus

[ˈfəʊkəs](v.)

3. inhibitory

inhibitory

(adj.)

inhospitable

[ˌɪnhɒˈspɪtəbl](adj.)

4. compete

compete

[kəmˈpiːt](v.)

competence

[ˈkɒmpɪtəns](n.)

5. stimulus

stimulus

[ˈstɪmjʊləs](n.)

stimulate

[ˈstɪmjʊleɪt](v.)

6. muscle

muscle

[ˈmʌsl](n.)

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