Recent research shows that your brain doesn't pay attention in one smooth stream-instead, it switches focus in quick bursts, about 8 times per second. This process, called "attentional sampling," ...

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Too much to do, too little time, too few resources. If you’re feeling that the harder you work, the behinder you get, you’re not alone. You and your distracted, impatient, irritable IT co-workers may ...

Trying harder or grinding simply won’t be enough. Information speed is expanding way beyond our brain’s capacities. Between new technology and platforms, and more people trying multi-hyphenate careers ...

Sensory overload occurs when the brain becomes overwhelmed by the volume or nature of the sensory inputs it receives. Sensory inputs can be any stimuli that enter through one of the sensory modalities ...

Wondering why you walked into a room? Feeling less effective at work? Overwhelmed with household tasks? Forgetting appointments? Do you have cloudy thinking or a sluggish thought process? Struggling ...

In a world where our growing dependence on digital devices and social media is increasingly under fire, the term "brain rot"—the idea that endless scrolling of low-value content negatively impacts our ...

Recent research shows that your brain doesn’t pay attention in one smooth stream—instead, it switches focus in quick bursts, about 8 times per second. This process, called “attentional sampling,” ...

As the technological environment speeds up to a maddening degree, Klingberg, a professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience at Sweden's Karolinska Institute, warns that the huge burden of ...

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