Diane GardnerFounder, Adept Business Solutions · Profit First Professional

🧠The brain is fascinating! 🤯 #neuroscience #marketing

18 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this concise video, the speaker explains how the brain processes information through a filtering system. The reticular formation acts as a gate, allowing only salient inputs to pass. Threats are routed directly to the amygdala, triggering a rapid hyper‑response. Opportunities also reach the amygdala, but then illuminate the prefrontal cortex, enabling thoughtful consideration. Truly novel stimuli require evaluation by the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and the entire brain, resulting in widespread activation. The speaker translates these neuro‑mechanisms into a marketing lesson: create something different and unexpected, because the brain’s novelty detection ensures it will be noticed.

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This is your brain. This is your brain split in half. You have a reticular formation that prevents information from going into the brain unless if it's a threat, it will come through the reticular formation and go to the amygdala for hyper-response. If it's an opportunity, it goes through, hits the amygdala, and illuminates the prefrontal cortex so we can consider the opportunity. And if it's a different thing, it must be evaluated by all parts of the brain, the amygdala, the prefrontal cortex, the entire brain illuminates. The lesson for your marketing is this: do something that's different and unexpected. People will always notice it.