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Sep 2026
Popcorn Brain in the Digital Age: A Critical Mini-Review of Attention, Cognitive Control, Reward Processing, and Digital Overload
It is argued that the scientific value of the popcorn-brain metaphor lies not in treating it as a disorder, but in using it to organize testable questions about fragmented attention, reward expectancy, cognitive offloading, and self-regulation.
Priyaranjan Maral, P. Pandey
· International Journal of Eme... · 0 citations