And why do we find ourselves so easily distracted? "Exogenous attention, the cognitive process that allows a salient visual stimulus to impose itself on us, is automatic. When a colleague walks past ...

Now, research from the University of Chicago shows it plays a specific role in visual sensory processing ... the subjects are ...

In bottom-up visual saliency, the stimulus is the only source of reaction ... Top-down saliency, on the other hand, might convey a broad range of emotional and cognitive implications and so take more ...

Yet it is increasingly clear that cognitive functions cannot be pinned ... field of vision caused by a corresponding injury in his visual cortex. A stroke victim might see noses, eyes, and mouths ...

For that reason, states have been introducing various stimulus payments to try and help some of their most vulnerable residents to make ends meet each month. New Mexico is one state that is ...

At least four dead and many injured in a school shooting in Georgia The $12,000 stimulus checks, set to be distributed this month, are aimed at providing crucial financial support to California ...

Movement naturally attracts attention. This phenomenon is known as "bottom-up attention," where the characteristics of the stimulus - such as motion - capture our focus without conscious effort. Early ...

On the one hand, previous research has shown that the omission of a visual stimulus results in a robust cortical response ... of the right TPJ with an action control network. Social Cognitive and ...

Perceptual inference requires the integration of visual features through recurrent processing, the dynamic exchange of information between higher and lower level cortical regions. While animal ...

This is an important behavioral, pharmacological intervention study of the effects of the catecholamine reuptake inhibitor methylphenidate (MPH) on value-based decision-making using a combination of ...

Each object of distraction lasts only a few seconds and doesn’t require any cognitive work ... which creates a desire for more stimulus, which leads to the habit of more scrolling on your ...

China’s Sputtering Growth Engines Raise Urgency for Stimulus Economists say government must do more to hit growth target Manufacturing PMI posts 4th straight month in contraction zone ...