Erika Jones, CFO, CCTAProfit First Professionals · Certified Fractional CFO and Profit First Professional

🧠The brain is fascinating! 🤯 #neuroscience #marketing

18 Apr 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief talk, the speaker explains how the brain processes information through three key pathways: the reticular formation acts as a gate, allowing only salient (threat or opportunity) signals to pass; threats trigger a rapid response via the amygdala; opportunities travel through the amygdala to the prefrontal cortex, where they are evaluated and considered. When a stimulus is novel or unexpected, it activates the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and broader brain networks simultaneously, creating heightened awareness. The speaker translates this neurobiological insight into a marketing lesson: create campaigns that are different and unexpected, because such stimuli will automatically capture attention and engage the whole brain.

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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 at 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.