Attention is the key to so many things related to our lives. We have to pay attention to walk across the street. We know our relationships are more satisfying if we actually pay attention to one ...

A friend of mine once told me that “You are where your attention is.” That line always stuck with me. It was a reminder that ...

Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian receives funding from the Wellcome Trust. Her research work is conducted within the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Mental Health and Neurodegeneration ...

Are you a parent or teacher frustrated that the children in your life can't seem to pay attention when you're trying to teach them something? You don't need to be, say psychologists at the University ...

I was looking for self-help advice in Chris Hayes’ “The Sirens' Call,” an examination of the system widely monopolizing our time and eroding our focus: the attention economy. In recent years, my ...

Credit...Illustration by Mathieu Larone. Supported by By Chris Hayes Mr. Hayes is the host of MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” and the author of “The Sirens ...

Teaching is nearly impossible to do when students aren’t paying attention, especially when there are distractions like smart phones, other students and hallway banter. It’s easy to get frustrated, but ...

For more than a decade, I have hosted an hour-long cable TV show on MSNBC. When I got my own show, I imagined it as something akin to the experience of first-time car ownership. I could drive wherever ...