Thirty-one habitual coffee drinkers, each used to three to five cups a day, gave up coffee entirely for two weeks. Then half ...

In 1890, psychologist William James described attention as the spotlight we shine not only on the world around us, but also on the contents of our minds. Most cognitive scientists since then have ...

Thoughts are fleeting by nature, but their effects may not be. New research from UC Santa Barbara shows that mind-wandering — those moments where our attention drifts away from a task at hand — can ...

One in three breast cancer survivors will experience cognitive problems, which can include difficulties with attention, ...

Neuroscientists have found new evidence that learning to play an instrument may be good for the brain. Musically trained children perform better at attention and memory recall and have greater ...

“The way we eat, sleep, work, and live is flooding, starving, clogging, and disrupting our brains by destabilizing the levels of three crucial brain chemicals: serotonin, dopamine, and cortisol. We ...

Selective attention involves concentrating on one main channel of information and not others – for example, focusing on the sentences in this blog post and not on the soles of your feet in your shoes ...

LONDON, Jan 19 (Reuters) - People with mild COVID-19 who do not suffer any other traditional "long COVID" symptoms can still exhibit deteriorated attention and memory six to nine months after ...