Attention Span The Science of Focus in the Digital Age

She is one of the foundational, most significant researchers in the attention field and the author of the book, Attention Spam.

You make a pretty important move very early on in the book. And you see this isn't really a book about productivity that we tend to bucket attention as a faculty of productivity and when we don't have enough of it we worry that we're not being productive enough.

While I was working on this piece, I called Gloria Mark, who is a professor of information science at the University of California at Irvine and the author of this book, Attention Span.

the psychologist who literally wrote the book on attention span. The book is called Attention Span.

Gloria Mark is a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. She's the author of Attention Span, a groundbreaking way to restore balance, happiness, and productivity.

Gloria Mark is a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine. She's the author of Attention Span, a groundbreaking book on the importance of the mind as a way to restore balance, happiness and productivity.

You can learn a lot more in my book, Attention Span.

Informatics refers to the intersection of people and computing. And that's what I study.

I found that attention spans have declined over the last 20 years. So as the digital age rose, we see our attention spans getting shorter and shorter.

people are just as likely to interrupt themselves as to be interrupted by anything external to them.

the Internet itself was designed for people to be distracted with its node and link structure, and it maps on so well to the way that human memory is is organized as a semantic network.

Limit screen time for kids. I mean, really limit the amount of time because kids tend to, you know, they they do play dates or they do their recreation on the screen. And instead, they should be off screen when they do this.

She's also author of the book, Attention Span, a groundbreaking way to restore balance, happiness and productivity.