Media

Selected Media

Attention, Sleep and Learning

27th October 2025

Listen to Dr Sophie Forster’s recent contribution to the Learning Matters podcast, where she collaborates with Dr. Giulia Poerio to discuss the relationship between attention, sleep, and learning.

Listen on Spotify!

"Weapons of Mass Distraction?" Conference

November 2024

Dr. Sophie Forster recently discussed the impacts of social / digital media on attention at the Copenhagen Centre for Social Data Science (SODAS). The event took an anthropological perspective, exploring how agency, intentionality, and attention interact in a digital age.

Read more about it here!

Why do we daydream?

2nd February 2024

Dr Sophie Forster’s appeared on BBC's CrowdScience Radio Show to help answer the question - why do we daydream?

Listen to it here!

Moving Minds Project

September 2023 - August 2024

The Moving Minds Project was aimed at developing engaging extra-curricular activities for neurodivergent (eg. autistic) children.

In collaboration with Press Play Films Director Lara Leslie, Dr. Sophie Forster aimed to design activities that foster sustained attention and meaningful engagement.

I can see what you are thinking about: Perceptual reactivation as a new method for studying attentional capture by spontaneous involuntary thoughts

25th May 2021

In collaboration with the Sussex Neuroscience CNI lecture series, Dr. Sophie Forster explores how our attention can be involuntarily captured not only by external distractions but also by our own spontaneous thoughts, revealing shared neural mechanisms and novel ways to track internal distraction relevant to conditions such as ADHD, anxiety, and eating behaviour.

Watch a recording of this lecture on YouTube!

How you can manipulate your powerful sense of smell.

6th June 2018

Listen to the BBC Radio 4 segment where Dr. Sophie Forster joins Claudia Hammond to discuss her research on 'nose blindness' and attention.