{"id":183,"date":"2024-12-26T22:14:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/26\/young-peoples-shrinking-attention-spans-are-nothing-to-worry-about-heres-why-marion-thain-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T22:14:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T22:14:53","slug":"young-peoples-shrinking-attention-spans-are-nothing-to-worry-about-heres-why-marion-thain-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2024\/12\/26\/young-peoples-shrinking-attention-spans-are-nothing-to-worry-about-heres-why-marion-thain-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people\u2019s shrinking attention spans are nothing to worry about. Here\u2019s why | Marion Thain | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Even more fundamentally, it is time to consider what types of attention we aspire to and why. What psychologists sometimes call unifocal attention (what we would think of focused rather than diffused attention) is only one way to attend, and it\u2019s not always the most useful \u2013 as Chris Chabris and Dan Simons showed in their 1999 experiment known as the \u201cInvisible Gorilla Experiment\u201d. Asked to count the number of passes in a basketball game, the experiment\u2019s subjects failed to notice the person in the gorilla suit dancing through the middle of the match. Focus trained intently on one thing can blind us to important but unexpected events. A more diffused focus might exercise different cognitive muscles and bring different rewards<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/26\/young-people-attention-spans-online-world\">www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/26\/young-people-attention-spans-online-world<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even more fundamentally, it is time to consider what types of attention we aspire to and why. What psychologists sometimes call unifocal attention (what we would think of focused rather than diffused attention) is only one way to attend, and it\u2019s not always the most useful \u2013 as Chris Chabris and Dan Simons showed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}