functional
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Increasingly, researchers are also asking why some brains remain functional despite those changes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
There was even a fully functional outdoor tub.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
While those people must be good at their roles, he believes that collaborative teams will outperform individuals who have a high level of functional brilliance, but don’t work well together.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
The cuts amount to 5% of its global workforce with most of them among operational and functional roles.
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
In Dr. Posner’s book, Attention in a Social World, he writes that “it is now possible to view attention much more concretely as an organ system, with its own functional anatomy.”
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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