Category: Psychology

  • Inattentional Blindness

    Inattentional Blindness

    Concentration is basically your mental focus working together with your other senses. The problem however is that there are millions of sensory inputs at any given time. This is much more information than the brain can handle, being able to focus only on any one given input at a time. This means that the brain…

  • Working Memory and Multitasking

    Working Memory and Multitasking

    Are you good at multitasking? Try and think about the most number of things you have done at any given time. Have you watched a TV show while talking on the phone while cutting up vegetables for dinner? What is it that makes some of us so good at multitasking while the rest of us…

  • The study of mind through the ages

    The study of mind through the ages

    The human mind and its innate workings have always been a source of fascination. The earliest evidence of this interest stems from the Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical papyrus dating c. 1550 BC, which cited clinical depression. Afflictions of the mind were initially considered the result of demonic possessions or the work of evil spirits.…