It’s no secret that our attention span is shrinking, as is our ability to ward off distractions. A study by Harvard University psychologists found that people spend nearly 47% of their day thinking ...

We are regularly bombarded with information about a steep drop in attention spans. Based on its own data in 2015, Microsoft reported that the average attention span had dropped from about 12 seconds ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Prince Ghuman covers neuroscience-based marketing strategy & tactics. In a world where distractions are endless and patience is in ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little ...

Distractions are inevitable, whether it’s your phone pulling you away from work or sleep, the noise in your office, or a home workspace that just isn’t conducive to productivity. Distractions don’t ...

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental Health and Neurodegeneration ...

In fact, some “global workspace” theories of consciousness can be understood in this way. Attention is the fundamental phenomenon, and only a specific type of cross-modal, reentrant, and globally ...

Scientists say they each have "unique clinical-neural profiles".