The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe, say researchers

Thursday, August 23, 2018 - 10:13 in Psychology & Sociology

You don’t focus as well as you think you do. That’s the fundamental finding of a team of researchers from Princeton University and the University of California-Berkeley who studied monkeys and humans and discovered that attention pulses in and out four times per second. “Our subjective experience of the visual world is an illusion,” said […]

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