Researchers demonstrate our brains can track sounds within the environment as we sleep. The study suggests this ability could allow us to sleep in safety and wake at the correct moment.
Researchers scrutinize the long-held perception that new mothers are more forgetful and less attentive. Mothers, they found, have similar alerting and orienting attention, and better executive control attention compared to women without children.
The posterior inferotemporal cortex plays a critical role in attention. Researchers say the discovery may require rethinking old concepts of attentional control.
According to an Acta Psychologica study, context and an individual's likelihood of being offended influence how profanity effects attention.
Puppets could be a useful tool to help young children on the autism spectrum improve their social engagement and attention.
To spot a missing item, people are 20% faster at locating what they are looking for if they factor in latent physical traits, like hardness or softness.
A new study challenges current understanding of how visual attention is focused, as well as the roles of long and short term memory.
Children who experience early life adversity experience faster biological aging than children with no history of exposure to abuse. Trauma was associated with biological aging in early puberty, cellular aging, and alterations in brain structure. The findings may explain why children who experienced adversity early in life often suffer poor health as they age.
Middle-aged people with the Alzheimer's related APOE4 gene have a harder time accessing recently acquired knowledge, even when they show no symptoms of memory decline.
MediTrain, a new app-based program that uses a closed-loop algorithm to tailor the length of meditation sessions to a person's ability, can improve memory and attention in younger people.
Children who experienced higher levels of distress and less physical contact had a lower epigenetic age than those who were picked up and held more frequently, researchers report. Lower epigenetic age, researchers note, may impede a child's ability to thrive.
Those on the autism spectrum had atypically smaller pupil dilation compared to the control group during distracting conditions while taking a push-button test. The findings suggest those with ASD may have dysregulation in locus coeruleus activity. The dysregulation of the LC may explain the exaggerated responses to environmental stimuli and fixated behaviors many with ASD experience.
