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Journalists report from Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 2. Media coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been massive.

Not every war gets the same coverage as Russia's invasion — and that has consequences

6:34pm March 04, 2022

by Malaka Gharib

Ongoing wars in, say, Yemen or Ethiopia get minimal attention compared with the media focus on the fighting in Ukraine. And there are ramifications on the humanitarian front.

Attention: A Love Story, by Casey Schwartz

In An Age Of Screens, Looking For 'Attention' In All The Wrong Places

4:59am April 08, 2020

by Annalisa Quinn

Casey Schwartz writes of her reliance on Adderall and her realization that the focus it brought was not genuine. But she leaves readers wanting to hear more on the relationship of attention and love.

Scientists at Johns Hopkins University are studying barn owls to understand how the brain maintains focus.

Scientists Study Barn Owls To Understand Why People With ADHD Struggle To Focus

5:24pm September 11, 2018

by Jon Hamilton

Research on the brains of barn owls suggests that attention problems like ADHD may involve a brain circuit that usually helps us ignore distractions.

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Gelmy, 9, and sister Alexa, 4, climbing trees in the backyard of their family home in the Yucatan Peninsula.

Health & Safety

A Lost Secret: How To Get Kids To Pay Attention

7:47pm June 21, 2018

by Michaeleen Doucleff

Maya kids do better on tests measuring attention, researchers say it's because these kids have something that many American kids have lost.

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Notice anything unusual about this lung scan? Harvard researchers found that 83 percent of radiologists didn't notice the gorilla in the top right portion of this image.

Health & Safety

Why Even Radiologists Can Miss A Gorilla Hiding In Plain Sight

9:37am February 14, 2013

by Alix Spiegel

An attention researcher wanted to find out how radiologists would fare in a version of the famous Invisible Gorilla study. He found that 83 percent of the radiologists failed to spot an image of a gorilla on slides they were told to inspect for cancer. It's just one example of how, when people are asked to perform a challenging task, their attention can narrow and blocks things out.

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