In our daily lives, we are constantly distracted as we move through the day. But when we finally decide to focus on just one thing, it means we ignore other things going on around us. While you may ...

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 ...

A study has used eye-tracking techniques to analyze the processes of selective attention that determine the way in which we explore and interact with our environment. Researchers studied the movements ...

There is substantial evidence that clinically referred and nonreferred high-anxious adults selectively shift attention toward threatening stimuli. In contrast, low-anxious adults shift attention away ...

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