Maybe. But my perception of confirmation bias is really taught as something we combat by looking for assumptions, reviewing and crosschecking.
The area of the brain the article refers to seems become more efficient with training and experience as the norms become more engrained, thus that brain is automatically filtering out what it believes is irrelevant noise without any concious effort.
This issue then (as I infer) seems to occupy a lower more basic level in that the concious effort to review or cross-check is potentially and unknowingly thwarted.
So, it doesn't seem to be simply a case of looking for what you perceive to be correct, but more about being blinded to what is probably unusual, even if you are looking for something wrong. As the article says, the 'unwanted' information can actually be inhibited.