Selective Attention

Paying Mind to Selective Attention

Judith Johnson | Posted 11.17.2011

Judith Johnson

With the increasing bombardment of stimuli we deal with each day, selective attention becomes more and more important to us to sort out what matters to us and what doesn't.

The Invisible Gorilla: Are You Paying Attention to the Wrong Stuff?

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 11.17.2011

Margaret Heffernan

In one of psychology's most stupefying experiments, Dan Simons made a video at Harvard that set out to test just how much our mind can see when it's busy.