I’m a big believer in the power of creating a visual “action board.” Doing so can prime your brain to grasp opportunities that’ll help you create the life you want. Visualization allows you to harness ...

NEW YORK — A sleepless night may affect your ability to filter out information, a new study finds. In the study, the researchers confirmed that sleep deprivation can impair what's known as "selective ...

With so much of the world glued to World Cup soccer action for the next few weeks, often conversations turn to “the game." Although we are all watching the same games, people’s perceptions, ...

Research led by the University of Michigan's Kresge Hearing Research Institute and the University of Rochester illuminates the mechanisms through which humans can pick out and focus on single sounds ...

Previous research demonstrated that while selectively attending to relevant aspects of the external world, the brain extracts pertinent information by aligning its neuronal oscillations to key time ...

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 ...

How can we shift from a state of inattentiveness to one of highest attention? The locus coeruleus, literally the "blue spot," is a tiny cluster of cells at the base of the brain. As the main source of ...