While you are reading this article, your brain is identifying letters, constructing sounds and recognising meaning, all within milliseconds… but what is going on behind the scenes? Backstage, all of ...

"Attentional blink" is the term psychologists use to describe our inability to recognize a second important object if we see it less than half a second after a first one. It always seemed impossible ...

Sometimes, when taking in new information, your eyes blink. Sometimes your mind does too. This special “blink” might explain why you sometimes get half-second amnesia, and forget what you’ve just seen ...

When your attention shifts from one place to another, your brain blinks. The blinks are momentary unconscious gaps in visual perception and came as a surprise to the team of Vanderbilt psychologists ...

An ERP study of female adolescents found that anorexia nervosa was associated with greater food engagement and a temporal ...

How do you know when to blink? A study shows that blinking does more than keep your eyes moist; your brain is actually timing your blinks around sentences, surprises, and the flow of a story. Study: ...

Visual representation of attentional blink. Driver focuses on the first target – the roadside billboard showing ice cream cones – leading them to miss the second target, a pedestrian crossing the ...

Psychologists have discovered that when you shift your attention from one place to another, your brain 'blinks'--experiences momentary gaps in perception. When your attention shifts from one place to ...