Attention - Queensland Brain Institute - University of Queensland

Podcast: Pay attention! How your brain decides what to focus on

Dr Anthony Harris is an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Fellow at the Queensland Brain Institute and an expert on human attention. He discusses what goes on in the brain when we are giving something our full attention, and breaks down whether or not multitasking is a myth.
Fruit fly offers new insights into attention and sleep

Published on: 27 November 2020

The ability to study sleep and attention in fruit flies could lead to a greater understanding of these potentially related phenomena in humans.
How the brain enables us to rapidly focus attention

Published on: 27 December 2018

QBI researchers have discovered a key mechanism in the brain that may underlie our ability to rapidly focus attention.
Paying attention helps your brain process what it can't see

Published on: 2 August 2018

Paying attention to a location helps the brain to process not just what you can see there, but also what you can’t – suggesting that attention and awareness are controlled by different pathways in the brain.
Rhythmic brain waves determine how well we perceive

Published on: 29 March 2018

Oscillations in brain activity influence how well we perceive objects in both expected and unexpected locations.
Seeing fast, acting slow: how the brain processes what you see

Published on: 23 March 2018

Identifying an object in an unexpected location is quick, but responding to it is slower.
Brain stimulation can boost performance on new tasks

Published on: 5 February 2018

Electrical stimulation applied to the brain during training can boost performance on new, untrained tasks controlled by the same brain areas.
Attention: interference and control

How much attention to you pay when you're reading? What happens when this process is disrupted?
Jason Mattingley: learning and memory

Professor Jason Mattingley discusses learning and memory in the brain.
The fruit fly may know it's bugging you

Published on: 24 July 2015

QBI researchers have shown, like humans, fruit flies may be self-aware of their actions.

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