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 ...

Staying focused in a world of nonstop work emails and social media notifications is a never-ending challenge. As much as we talk about the importance (and difficulty) of sustained, deep focus, there ...

Using a model of fMRI data collected from 92 individuals performing several types of attention-related tasks, researchers successfully predicted how well those individuals would perform on the tasks ...

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 ...

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 ...

Attention is a way of giving priority to information. Attention is one of the key productive factors in the modern economy. Our capacity to acquire and process information is fundamentally limited.

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 ...

People all over the world are taking notice of “Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity,” a new book by UC Irvine’s Gloria Mark, Chancellor’s Professor of ...

Data from brain scans can now answer an age-old question asked by parents and teachers everywhere: Are you paying attention? Using a model of fMRI data collected from 92 individuals performing several ...