Paying attention refers to the brain's ability to take all of the stimuli around us, immediately categorize and organize information as relevant or irrelevant, and focus the mind on one thing.

Children's selective attention, or their ability to focus on a specific task and tune out distractions, develops slowly and doesn't fully mature until early adulthood. Previous research has found ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Children can learn effectively even when not paying attention, unlike adults who require focused attention to learn optimally. This difference is attributed to ...