Teachers can help students build their capacity to stay on task by ensuring that they have a clear path to start working, ...

Cognitive control in task switching and multitasking refers to the brain’s dynamic ability to reconfigure cognitive resources when alternating between concurrent tasks. This ability is crucial in ...

Imagine you're deep into something you love—maybe hyperfocused, maybe just finally in the groove. Suddenly you need to move on to something totally different. Prefer to listen rather than read? Press ...

We live in an era when endless switching from one type of activity to another has become a necessity of life. Throughout the day, our focus on specific tasks gets disrupted by various emails, texts, ...

If you live with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, you know firsthand how this condition affects your brain. One of the biggest impacts is the way ADHD can make it difficult to ...

Recently, I wrote about how I'm better at starting tasks than finishing them. Since publishing that post, it's been interesting to hear from others who are the same. Typically, we think of ...