Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain mapped hundreds of images (far left) by eye tracking (center left), "meaning" (center right) and salience or outstanding features (far left).

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with MSNBC presenter Chris Hayes about his new book, "The Siren's Call: How Attention Became the World's Most Endangered Resource." STEVE INSKEEP, BYLINE: A recent skit on ...

What happens when we can’t pay attention? As someone whose goals depend — perhaps too much — on my competence, the thought of not being able to pay attention upsets me. But lapses in attention are ...

Words like 'this' and 'that' or 'here' and 'there' occur in all languages. Researchers show that such 'demonstrative' words are used to direct listeners' focus of attention and to establish joint ...

Consciousness—the subjective awareness of various things such as visual objects, events, thoughts, and emotions—is of interest to many scholars including theologists, philosophers, and psychologists.

Not getting ample attention causes real harm; loneliness is a sad and silent killer (see “10 Tips that Can Help You Get Past Loneliness”). On the other hand, receiving incessant attention can cause ...

Back in 2020, Karen Nelson-Field’s seminal work ‘The Attention Economy and How Media Works’ attracted the attention of the marketing industry. Four years on, are we still in love with the method, or ...

The theme of this week’s ETech conference is the “attention economy,” which can be an immediate turnoff. I am tired of everything on the Web linked to economies and ecologies, as if it lends some ...

Our visual attention is drawn to parts of a scene that have meaning, rather than to those that are salient or 'stick out,' according to new research. The findings overturn the widely held model of ...

All languages have words like ‘this’ and ‘that’ to distinguish between referents that are ‘near’ and ‘far’. Languages like English or Hebrew have two of these ‘demonstratives’. Languages like Spanish ...