attention

An explainable multi-modal graph learning framework with attention-based GCN-GAT for EEG-based depression detection

An evidence-bounded PSYTECH brief on the human implications of a verified technology signal.

The classroom without a pocket

Phone bans are not a morality play. They are a mixed empirical literature about attention, equity, and what a developing control system is asked to practise.

Nou Heravi

Notification debt: the invisible cognitive tax

Every unread badge is a half-open loop. The cost is not the glance. It is the residue in working memory.

Habit is not a feature — it is a capture strategy

Product teams celebrate retention. Psychologists study habit. When those languages blur, design starts optimising for compulsion while calling it care.

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When search replaces memory, what do we still know?

External memory is ancient — notebooks, maps, other people. Instant search changes the bargain: we outsource not only facts, but the paths that once made facts ours.

Nou Heravi

What you click becomes what you seem to want

Personalisation is not only convenience. Over time it shapes what feels familiar — often without a reflective decision.

Attention is not a UX metric — it is public health

If attention is the substrate of learning and self-control, design that harvests it is not only a taste. It is an exposure. The size of the effect is still argued; the frame is not empty.

Screens and teenage sleep: what the mixed science actually says

Public debate treats “screen time” as one exposure. The literature is more granular — evening light, interruption, and displaced opportunity — and still serious enough for design.

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Why video calls drain social attention faster than rooms do

Back-to-back video days often feel heavier than rooms. A theoretical account names the load. It is not a universal law of the medium.

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