If you're struggling with focus, the solution isn't more willpower, but better design to support focus rituals.

A person’s capacity for attention has a profound impact on what they see, dictating which details they glean from the world around them. As they walk down a busy street, the focus of their attention ...

Spend five to 10 minutes each day practising mindful breathing. This exercise helps redirect attention from racing thoughts ...

Malaka Gharib is the digital editor of the NPR podcast Life Kit. Previously, she was the deputy editor and digital strategist on NPR's global health and development team, where she covered topics such ...

How can we shift from a state of inattentiveness to one of highest attention? The locus coeruleus, literally the 'blue spot,' is a tiny cluster of cells at the base of the brain. As the main source of ...

When we look for something moving in the sky, our expectation would be very different if the object is a bird flying past or a baseball coming straight at us. UC Davis scientists in a new study looked ...

There is a quiet force working in our lives every single day. It's not always loud or dramatic, but it may be one of the most powerful factors influencing our success, our happiness, and even our ...

Attention please. Text written on a piece of paper or note, cork board background. The attention economy seems to have run amok. Early on in the attention economy, media and other companies would vie ...

Gabriele Wulf does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...