Mindfulness: The Brain’s Attention Boss Transcript: Speaker 1 I started getting a little bit antsy around this because what we were finding repeatedly that my advisors had already known was that this system of the brain is extremely powerful. So much so that I’ll refer to it as the brain’s boss because we know that wherever it is that we devote our attention will modify almost the entirety of the computational functioning Of the brain. I can bias it in very, very profound ways. So if it is this boss, I started getting excited in my early years as an assistant professor, that was at the University of Pennsylvania, on what we could do to perturb attention. (Time 0:04:04)