A new study shows why today’s smartest models struggle to stay on task.

Interaction mechanisms between cognition and binocular motor control in reading saccades remain unclear. In this study we examine objectively saccades and fixations parameters during the Stroop test, ...

New research provides evidence that while advanced artificial intelligence models process language with remarkable skill, ...

(via SciShow Psych) The task sounds like it should be pretty easy, but the Stroop task is a fantastic, and very well studied, example of how your brain’s automatic processing can trip you up!

A classic attention test revealed that advanced AI models can lose focus when faced with longer, more demanding tasks. Unlike ...

Schizophrenia is associated with impairments of attentional control on classic experimental paradigms such as the Stroop task. However, at a basic level the neurochemical mechanisms that may be ...

Stroop Effect discovered by Ridley Stroop in the 1930s refers to the difficulty experienced when attempting to name the color of a word’s font when the word itself is a color. For example, the word ...

When humans are completing a specific task, their minds can shift from what they are doing to their own internal thoughts. This shift of attention from a task to internal events, known as off-task ...

Every day, we are faced with countless decisions regarding cognitive control, or the process of inhibiting automatic or habitual responses in order to perform better at a task. Amitai Shenhav, Ph.D., ...