Fysdt writes with this excerpt from New Scientist: "Those who are easily distracted from the task in hand may have 'too much brain.' So says Ryota Kanai and his old-boy network at tutoring mash College London, who found larger than average volumes of grey matter in certain brain regions in those whose convergence is readily diverted. To investigate distractibility, the team compared the brains of easy and difficult-to-distract individuals. [Abstract] They assessed each person's distractibility by quizzing them about how often they fail to notice road signs, or go into a shop and become sidetracked to the point that they forget what they came in to buy. The most distractible individuals orthodox the highest score."

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