Digital distractions are vying for people’s focus, but our underlying capacity to pay attention seems to be undiminished.

Human attention does not flow like a steady stream. Instead, it pulses in rapid cycles, with brain oscillations between 7 and 10 hertz creating brief windows of vulnerability roughly 7 to 10 times ...

If it feels harder to concentrate than it used to, it's not just you. Scientists say your brain is reacting exactly as it was ...

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In our increasingly connected world, digital distractions pose a significant challenge to maintaining focus and productivity. Smartphones, while indispensable tools, often disrupt our attention and ...

Stacey Hanke is founder of Stacey Hanke Inc. and author of “Influence Redefined: Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be, Monday to Monday.” Your listeners are exhausted. They're fighting an uphill battle ...

I’ve been thinking about different forms of distraction, and the differences between distraction and mind-wandering. We talk a lot about focus and distraction, and often talk about them as if they’re ...

Opinion: Our era of distractions may be a quiet crisis, writes Armstrong Williams, but for a function democracy, its ...