Your Attention Please, a documentary premiering this week at SXSW in Austin, Texas, explores how we live in the attention ...

MIT neuroscientists have figured out how the brain is able to focus on a single voice among a cacophony of many voices, shedding light on a longstanding neuroscientific phenomenon known as the ...

Americans are reading less and struggling to focus on tasks these days. Here's how Gloria Mark, who studies attention spans, suggests improving your focus.

Research in psychology and cognitive science suggests there are ways to fight back against this and reclaim your attention.

If it feels like your attention span is shrinking, the data says you are likely right. But small changes can help you fight the decline in your focus.

Think about all the things vying for your attention daily. Emails, text messages, appointments, car maintenance—there’s a seemingly endless parade of “to-dos” and “want-to-dos.” As a result, there are ...

Data from brain scans can now answer an age-old question asked by parents and teachers everywhere: Are you paying attention? Using a model of fMRI data collected from 92 individuals performing several ...

When “The Attention Economy” warned marketers of the increasing difficulty of engaging consumers “in the face of overwhelming options,” it was 2002. Twenty years later, consumer attention has never ...

Work life has changed drastically over the past two decades. We have gone from working with single information objects such as typewriters to working with constant digital distractions like emails, ...