Some people can drop a task midstream, respond to a curveball, and then slide back into deep focus with barely a hitch.

The hypothalamus is a small region of the human brain typically associated with regulating body temperature, hunger, thirst, fatigue, and sleep. But it also has another important role: helping the ...

The effects of multitasking on productivity ...

The modern world celebrates the multitasker. We praise those who can answer emails while on conference calls, scroll social media during TV shows, and text while walking. But behind this apparent ...

Procrastination has a name: the VS–VP circuit — and this team of researchers has ideas for how to switch it off ...

The left figure illustrates the hypothalamus, a region responsible for encoding the switch between survival-related behaviors, along with its connected regions during the switching process. The right ...