Researchers have known that children often don't focus on tasks and tend to "overexplore" instead of paying attention to what ...

Researchers at Ohio State University found that when working memory is overloaded, attention becomes scattered and adults ...

A study by a group of Cornell researchers published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance found that tomato juice—the main ingredient in a Bloody Mary—tastes ...

Overloading adults' working memory causes them to behave like children, scatter attention, and "over explore," even while learning.