Sensory overload is often about uncertainty and how long the brain has to stay engaged—especially in autism and ADHD.

Basically, cognitive overload is what happens when you're inundated with more information than your brain can process, so ...

Sensory overload occurs when the brain becomes overwhelmed by the volume or nature of the sensory inputs it receives. Sensory inputs can be any stimuli that enter through one of the sensory modalities ...

Our senses send more information to our brains than we can process. Every second, our brains receive around 11 million bits of information. But scientists estimate that our conscious minds can only ...