Mr. Burnett, Ms. Loh and Mr. Schmidt are members of the Friends of Attention collective. The lament is as old as education itself: The students aren’t paying attention. But today, the problem of ...

The same technology that helps astronauts stay attentive in the cockpit now helps students and adults overcome attention, concentration and focus issues. The Space Foundation announced today that Play ...

Most of us have devices that offer immediate and short entertainment within reach at all times. Apps like Instagram and TikTok have contributed to student’s shortened attention spans with their short, ...

The teacher says my son sometimes has trouble focusing, but it’s only in one class, and when he describes the class, it sounds like there are a lot of distractions outside his control. My question is: ...

“We believe everyone deserves access to care for attention challenges,” said Jack Z Chen, Founder and CEO of Cognitive Leap. “Introducing the vCAT™ system to Costa Rica is a key step toward that goal.

We are regularly bombarded with information about a steep drop in attention spans. Based on its own data in 2015, Microsoft reported that the average attention span had dropped from about 12 seconds ...

How many times per day do you check your phone? According to Gloria Mark, psychologist and author of Attention Span, people swipe from screen to screen about 566 times per day, and about half of those ...

The crisis of attention is a subject of long-standing public interest. New technologies, from the printing press to the novel to the television, have sparked critical analyses of the potential dangers ...

Kamil can focus on things that are interesting to him, such as playing a game online. Often, when he is engaged in a class, his flow of thought gets interrupted by the bell and he goes to his next ...

Marina, a six-year-old girl, interrupts her mother repeatedly during our session, trying to get Mom to look at the family portrait she has drawn on the whiteboard. Her mother tells Marina to wait a ...

Credit...Illustration by Mathieu Larone. Supported by By Chris Hayes Mr. Hayes is the host of MSNBC’s “All In With Chris Hayes” and the author of “The Sirens ...