We are distracted. When we look back from our frantic present, the past seems like a place where we could hear ourselves think. In “The Wandering Mind,” Jamie Kreiner observes that the modern-day ...

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 ...

We live in an era of distraction. Teachers, researchers, and productivity experts love to remind us of our inability to stay focused. Technology seems to be “eroding human memory,” “creating ...

NEW YORK — Exploring the anatomy of attention, researchers have discovered that middle-aged people are more readily driven to distraction by interruptions because of age-related changes in how their ...

In A Nutshell The brain’s attention system does not hold steady; it cycles through windows of vulnerability roughly 7 times per second, driven by a neural rhythm called theta oscillations. A second, ...

Your mind is becoming more vulnerable by the day. With each emerging technology from AirPods to iPads, your ability to focus is quickly slipping away. Immersing ourselves in any type of long-form work ...

Lerouge demonstrates that distraction can help decision-making, depending on the manner in which consumers process the available product information. "I find that distraction only helps consumers who ...

We are often distracted. When using a computer, most people have several browsers or windows open simultaneously, and it is estimated that we check our phones about every seven minutes. Sometimes ...

The idea of a high-performance mind conjures up images of a multitasking master, rapidly sifting through mounds of data, emails and articles with boundless enthusiasm. Nothing is further from the ...