This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Classical conditioning is one of those ...

The blog posts I’ve written so far have mostly focused on fairly recent films, such as Twilight or Harry Potter. But today, I want to write about a classic film that used, appropriately enough, ...

Fragmented attention is one of life’s challenges. You are trying to have an important conversation and you get a text. You are running to the store while simultaneously listening to the news, juggling ...