Researchers at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain mapped hundreds of images (far left) by eye tracking (center left), "meaning" (center right) and salience or outstanding features (far left).

They are often accused of being distracting, but recent research has found that action packed video games like Halo and Call of Duty can enhance visual attention, the ability that allows us to focus ...

In a world inundated with a constant stream of new information—notifications, ads, emails, news—we often struggle to prevent our attention from being constantly hijacked by external events. But is it ...

Playing an action videogame, even for a relatively short time, causes differences in brain activity and improvements in visual attention, a new study shows. A team led by psychology professor Ian ...

This useful study demonstrates that microsaccade direction primarily indexes shifts rather than the maintenance of covert spatial attention, offering a focused interpretation that may help reconcile ...

Why can my child pay attention to a video game—but not to anything else?! Paradox? Or intuitive finding once we understand the basis of attention? Attention is interest-based and driven by stimulation ...

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.

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 ...

ST. PAUL, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--3M today introduced the next generation of its Visual Attention Service (VAS), the online scanning tool used to optimize the visual impact of design across ...