The answer is true. A recent research shows that we can override the tendency to focus on noisy or novel stimuli. According to Gallagher and Tierney, we can use the prefrontal cortex, which is also known as the brain’s planning center, to focus our attention deliberately.
A Southern Unionist was a white Southerner who either opposed secession and the Confederate States of America and/or supported the Union or stayed neutral.
Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus as he is popularly known was one of the greatest scholars who published many Renaissance write-up and most notably, a Greek New Testament that would be read by many reformers who followed.