Researchers have known that children often don’t focus on tasks and tend to “over explore” instead of paying attention to what they should be doing. However, why they do has remained unknown. Are they simply curious or is something missing…

A recent study in Computers in Human Behavior provides evidence that a single smartphone pop-up derails mental focus for seven seconds. Researchers found that fragmented digital habits cause more cognitive disruption than the total hours spent on devices.

A UChicago study finds that when the brain is unsure which information matters, separate visual features get mixed up in the brain, and performance on tasks suffers.