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1. Alertness

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   Contextual Alertness and Task Specificity
   The required level of alertness varies significantly based on the context. General environmental awareness (often termed 'Ambient Alertness') requires lower cognitive load than task-specific preparedness ('Focused Alertness').
   Ambient Alertness primarily relies on the integrity of the parietal lobe's ability to rapidly catalog irrelevant stimuli for immediate discard. Conversely, Focused Alertness requires significant [prefrontal c…