An ongoing controversy in philosophy is whether or not we can provide an evolutionary account of consciousness. Can we say that consciousness (i.e., our subjective phenomenal experience) evolved for a ...

Attention is a complex neural and psychological phenomenon, coming in many different forms and involving many different brain structures and mechanisms. Oft-quoted examples include arousal, vigilance ...

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental Health and Neurodegeneration ...

Although attention plays a ubiquitous role in perception and cognition, researchers lack a simple way to measure a person's overall attentional abilities. Because behavioral measures are diverse and ...

The negative effects of social media and a hectic news cycle on our attention span has been an on-going discussion in recent years--but there's been a lack of empirical data supporting claims of a ...

It seems like everywhere you look, someone is trying to get your attention. As reported in a Forbes article, experts estimate that we see 4,000 to 10,000 ads a day. And it's not just businesses; even ...