New research from UC Santa Barbara shows that mind-wandering — those moments where our attention drifts away from a task at ...

Trying to finish your homework while the big game is on TV? "Visual-movement" neurons in the front of your brain can help you stay focused, according to a new study from neuroscientists in the ...

Neuroscientists find that key neurons in the front of the brain act as 'traffic control' to manage our attention to visual stimuli, and help us focus despite distractions. Trying to finish your ...

Neuroscientists have artificially increased neuronal activity in part of the brain by briefly shining light on genetically modified neurons. They saw that this manipulation selectively enhanced ...

Neuroscientists have been trying to understand how the brain processes visual information for over a century. The development ...

Whether we’re staring at our phones, the page of a book, or the person across the table, the objects of our focus never stand in isolation; there are always other objects or people in our field of ...

How the human brain organizes its visual memories through precise neural timing has been discovered. Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC; CA, USA) have made a significant ...

Ever notice how that half-finished project lurks in your thoughts during dinner? Or how the email you didn’t send somehow pops into your mind during your morning shower? There’s a fascinating reason ...