This 2024 article by cognitive neuroscience professor Torkel Klingberg reflects on his 2007 book "The Overflowing Brain," which explored...

Despite living in an information-rich world, our attention operates at just 10 bits per second—a staggering limitation revealed by Cal...

Your phone is rewiring your brain. Research shows the average adult can only focus for 47 seconds—we're all developing "Internet Brain."...

Attention is our most precious cognitive resource. It is finite, selective, and constantly under siege in the digital age. The attention...

Modern digital environments are engineered to seize our attention, but our brains aren’t built to handle the constant pull. In Human...

Our dwindling attention spans may be victims of "brain rot" – Oxford's 2024 word of the year that describes how social media potentially...

Research shows attention difficulties extend far beyond those with ADD/ADHD. People with anxiety, depression, OCD, and eating disorders...

Just as ultra-processed foods reshaped our bodies, ultra-processed information is reshaping our minds. Cheap, synthetic content floods...

"We live in an age of lexical abundance. More words, more access, more content than at any time in human history... The reading brain,...

Scrolling through social media demands more attention than we think—and that might be costing us in the gym. A new study shows that...

TikTok isn’t just another social media app—it’s an attention factory. As told in Attention Factory by Matthew Brennan, TikTok thrives by...

In our digital age, attention is often viewed as a commodity to be managed and exploited. However, this perspective misses a deeper...

Attention architects try every trick in the book: they hang up screens with moving images in busy city centers, add flashing banners to...

In an era where disinformation dominates our digital landscape, our ability to focus is more important than ever. Attention acts as a...

Attention isn't just about focusing—it's about how our brains decide what matters. According to Andy Clark's predictive processing...

In The Economics of Attention (2023), George Loewenstein and Zachary Wojtowicz argue that attention is a scarce economic resource, as...

Research shows that where athletes direct their attention can be the difference between winning gold or missing the podium entirely....

The first step is understanding how to access our innate power to choose our response to a given situation. In particular, we must...

In this digital age, the news we’re being fed is only getting more extreme. In the old days, journalists didn’t know much about their...

"If there is one powerful thing that self-actualizing people have learned to do, it’s to control where they place their attention. They...