Attention is a lot like love. Everyone knows what it is and when it's present, but the multiple components of attention defy easy definition. Attention is the thread that holds together the fabric of ...

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 ...

No matter how different they seem — the learned and contemplative neuroscientist versus the toy orangutan with a penchant for off-color jokes — almost any adult who experiences them knows that ...

In 1890, psychologist William James described attention as the spotlight we shine not only on the world around us, but also on the contents of our minds. Most cognitive scientists since then have ...

Lloyd is a dear friend who, among other things, is an eloquent writer. The process of learning how to write and then becoming proficient enough to write widely read novels is no easy task. Lloyd had ...

When most people think of distraction, they think of flooded inboxes, cellphone beeps, Twitter feeds. An ever-present and unavoidable consequence of our fast-paced contemporary world, distraction is ...

There has been a movement toward emphasizing attention levels in the advertising industry. The level of emphasis is being questions by Byron Sharp and the Ehrenberg-Bass Institute While the view of ...