Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes - think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke - ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

In this blog series, for the last 9 years, we have explored the implications of the differences between consciousness and attention. One difference is about the divergent paths taken by species ...

It seems like everywhere you look, someone is trying to get your attention. As reported in a Forbes article, experts estimate that we see 4,000 to 10,000 ads a day. And it's not just businesses; even ...

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 ...