A new study led by Dr. Jiang Yi from the Institute of Psychology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the first ...

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 ...

Consciousness—the subjective awareness of various things such as visual objects, events, thoughts, and emotions—is of interest to many scholars including theologists, philosophers, and psychologists.

Researchers at Tohoku University have revealed multiple functions of visual attention, the process of selecting important information from retinal images. Studies of visual attention discovered an ...

To a neuroscientist, the trouble with cocktail parties is not that we do not love cocktails or parties (many neuroscientists do). Instead what we call “the cocktail party problem” is the mystery of ...

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 ...