Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little ...

We often hear that we live in an attention economy, where tech companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook present us with an overwhelming amount of irresistible information that steals our attention.

However, this work proves that there is far more to covert attention than previously thought. Not only have the researchers shown that there are emergent attentional behaviors, they also show that ...