What happens when we can’t pay attention? As someone whose goals depend — perhaps too much — on my competence, the thought of not being able to pay attention upsets me. But lapses in attention are ...

In machine learning, the self-attention mechanism assigns weights to different parts of a sentence to analyze the importance and relationships of the words. Meaning "attending to itself," the self ...

Words like 'this' and 'that' or 'here' and 'there' occur in all languages. Researchers show that such 'demonstrative' words are used to direct listeners' focus of attention and to establish joint ...

Once Upon a Prime. By Sarah Hart. Flatiron Books; 304 pages; $29.99. Mudlark; £16.99 THE MEMBERS of Oulipo—an abbreviation of ouvroir de littérature potentielle, or “workshop of potential ...

All languages have words like ‘this’ and ‘that’ to distinguish between referents that are ‘near’ and ‘far’. Languages like English or Hebrew have two of these ‘demonstratives’. Languages like Spanish ...