Discover nine common brain habits that reduce focus without notice, learn how they develop, and why recognising them is ...

Researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute found that rotating waves of brain activity help restore focus after distractions. In animal tests, these rotations predicted performance: full rotations meant ...

Attention can feel like a fragile thing, especially when your brain struggles to sort signal from noise. Every second, your ...

The human brain can learn through experience to filter out disturbing and distracting stimuli -- such as a glaring roadside billboard or a flashing banner on the internet. Scientists have used ...

In a typical office environment, workers are interrupted approximately every three minutes by digital notifications, colleague requests, or their own wandering minds. Research from the University of ...

In a study of mice, scientists discovered that a brain region called the thalamus may be critical for filtering out distractions. The study, published in Nature and partially funded by the National ...

The coronavirus has chained us to our screens more than ever before and confirmed how hard it is to wrest digital devices away from kids—of every age. For adults working from home, staring into ...

With strengthened attention and focus skills, teens become better at persevering, planning for goal achievement, organizing, sustaining motivation, and managing emotions.

In a world driven by constant notifications and digital overload, multitasking has become the norm. From texting while working to juggling emails during meetings, our attention is constantly divided.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, children are spending a huge amount of time on screens, whether for learning, entertainment or social interaction. While technology has made education more ...

By Mhel Cedric D. BendoThese days, distraction in many classrooms in the Philippines does not loudly declare its presence. It ...

The human brain has 86 billion neurons connected by roughly 100 trillion synapses, making it one of the most complex objects in the known universe. Each year neuroscientists make fascinating, ...