Mind the Gap messaging. Words reshuffled. Photo: "Mind/the/gap" by futureshape is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center ...

Exercise interventions, such as cognitively engaging exercise programs, significantly improve sustained attention in children and adolescents with ADHD.

Let's face it: Even as business leaders, we can’t pay attention to everything at once. Doing so would be overwhelming. So, we filter things out. It’s the way we function in the world. We operate on ...

And the average length of a shot in a movie is now under five seconds. These days, multi-tasking while you're tasking is the norm among young people. Just ask counselor Lauren Barnett and her ...

It seems like everywhere you look, someone is trying to get your attention. As reported in a Forbes article, experts estimate that we see 4,000 to 10,000 ads a day. And it's not just businesses; even ...

No, the average human attention span is not shorter than a goldfish's. But research suggests the average attention span may be decreasing, and that may be problematic, says Northeastern University ...

It’s no secret that our attention span is shrinking, as is our ability to ward off distractions. A study by Harvard University psychologists found that people spend nearly 47% of their day thinking ...

In our daily lives, we are constantly distracted as we move through the day. But when we finally decide to focus on just one thing, it means we ignore other things going on around us. While you may ...

Our attention spans appear to be in decline, but what role is technology playing in this phenomenon? Studies have shown that people spend only around 47 seconds, on average, focusing on any given ...

There are so many crises that make the news, all of which are digested in bite-size morsels: political divisiveness, crime and policing, race relations, environmentalism, and the list goes on. What’s ...