New research is causing quite some controversy on Reddit — but it makes some very interesting points.

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 ...

Researchers gave top AI models a classic attention test used in psychology and found a major flaw. While the models could ...

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

(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!

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 ...

Giving AI a classic psychological test reveals an inherent weakness in LLM decision-making abilities. Suketu Patel and ...