NEW YORK — Exploring the anatomy of attention, researchers have discovered that middle-aged people are more readily driven to distraction by interruptions because of age-related changes in how their ...

We live in an era of distraction. Teachers, researchers, and productivity experts love to remind us of our inability to stay focused. Technology seems to be “eroding human memory,” “creating ...

We are distracted. When we look back from our frantic present, the past seems like a place where we could hear ourselves think. In “The Wandering Mind,” Jamie Kreiner observes that the modern-day ...

The mind is all we have to experience our world; it is the filter for everything we perceive and do. Its quality ultimately determines that of our lives. Mindfulness meditation, a deliberate form of ...

Our lives are full of distractions. These distractions may be internal, external or a combination of both. External distractions include sounds, physical sensations or sights, such as seeing a person ...

The world is not distracted; our minds are. Yes, we have more options than any generation before us. But that’s an excuse, not the real reason, why our minds wander all the time. The enemy of focus is ...

We are often distracted. When using a computer, most people have several browsers or windows open simultaneously, and it is estimated that we check our phones about every seven minutes. Sometimes ...

When it comes to how to be more focused and less distracted, we’ve got things inside out. We tend to think that we are distracted because of the devices in our pocket, Instagram, Facebook, text ...