Cognitive scientists explain what’s driving the precipitous decline in our ability to focus—and offer evidence-based ...

Plenty of AI-powered media companies are eager to claim your attention. With intention, we can use AI without surrendering ...

Exercise interventions, such as cognitively engaging exercise programs, significantly improve sustained attention in children and adolescents with ADHD.

Mind the Gap messaging. Words reshuffled. Photo: "Mind/the/gap" by futureshape is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center ...

And the average length of a shot in a movie is now under five seconds. These days, multi-tasking while you're tasking is the norm among young people. Just ask counselor Lauren Barnett and her ...

Let's face it: Even as business leaders, we can’t pay attention to everything at once. Doing so would be overwhelming. So, we filter things out. It’s the way we function in the world. We operate on ...

For adults, attention-seeking behavior is a conscious or unconscious attempt to become the center of attention, sometimes to gain validation or admiration. It may be driven by jealousy or loneliness.

No, the average human attention span is not shorter than a goldfish's. But research suggests the average attention span may be decreasing, and that may be problematic, says Northeastern University ...

Our attention spans appear to be in decline, but what role is technology playing in this phenomenon? Studies have shown that people spend only around 47 seconds, on average, focusing on any given ...

Children with ADHD traits are more likely to face physical health problems and disability in midlife, according to one of the largest long-term studies to date.