These four hands-on activities guide students to explore how their attention and memory function and how that impacts ...

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 ...

We often hear that we live in an attention economy, where tech companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook present us with an overwhelming amount of irresistible information that steals our attention.

It happens in seconds. A handshake, a polite smile, a name spoken clearly, and then, almost instantly, it vanishes. The ...