It allows the brain to process information from senses such as vision and touch, and enable the sort of thinking involved in selective attention and perception.

下顶叶使大脑能够处理从诸如视觉和触觉等感官传来的信息，并使涉及有选择性注意和知觉之类的思维活动得以进行。

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Such an atavism is the consequence of the principles of economy in human thinking and sociocultural psychology as well as the internal selective mechanism of human language.

这种返祖现象的语言学成因，除语言内部选择机制的作用外，还有思维经济原则和社会文化心理的作用。

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Confirmation bias is a type of selective thinking in which we tend to notice and look for that which confirms our beliefs and positions, and to ignore or undervalue the relevance of anything that is contradictory.

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