A brief course on how to pay attention boosts children’s scores on either intelligence or attention tests, depending on their age, a new study finds. The training may quicken normal brain development, ...

For those who constantly worry about imagined catastrophes or freak out around others, here’s an attention-grabber. A few brief training sessions offer as much anxiety relief as psychotherapy or ...

Can a fitness program for your brain improve thinking and concentration the way lifting weights can increase muscle strength? Early results from a new study suggest that attention training can change ...

Last month, a student emailed me to explain that because of various stressful circumstances, he was struggling to focus and to complete his coursework. I wrote back to grant an extension, to direct ...

Being able to voluntarily regulate our attention is crucial for mental processes such as intelligence and learning in children. With this in mind, researchers have carried out a study in which they ...

Computerized Progressive Attention Training (CPAT), developed at Tel Aviv University, significantly reduced symptoms among 33 percent of students with ADHD. Moreover, these improvements were ...

Pulling into a parking spot at work, you realize you have no recollection of the drive that got you there. While reading a news story, you arrive at the bottom of the page, frustrated that you have no ...

Attention is a computation applied to competing environmental information to bias the selection of one option and avoid distraction from alternative inputs. Studying the development of visual ...