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 ...

The term “information overload” was coined by social scientist Bertram Myron Gross, who used it to describe a phenomenon wherein a system lacks the capability to process a large volume of data. The ...