Oh that sounds really interesting, I’d like to track it down.

Was it this one? https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015464/Attention-Not-Immersio...

That’s definitely in the same realm, but not the one I was thinking of. I believe I’m thinking of something maybe 10 years earlier, it had multiple authors, at least one woman, and some of the authors were psychology researchers who were into games. I’d wouldn’t be surprised if this is a theme and avenue of research that has come up many years at GDC.