What is cognitive vitality?
In order to effectively interact with the world around us, our brains have to continuously process large amounts of complex information. We need to select the information most important and relevant to us at any given time, properly attend to it, perceive its message and store it in memory for long enough to act on it. In the absence of well developed capacity for attention, perception, and memory, a person walks through life as a moonwalker oblivious to his/her circumstances. These most basic cognitive skills do not come easy, and the brain has to invest in learning how best to perform them from the very first day of life. What sights, sounds, and smells are more important than others and must not be missed? What type of touch and taste are more central to survival and well being? How to make sense of complex visual patterns and build an internal database of familiar people and places? How not to be distracted by less important and less meaningful stimuli, even if they glitter and tem
