attention span

Talking about it makes me feel like a complaining old man--the kind of old person who used to carp about my generation when we were young--but I have to acknowledge that many more of the young students entering my private studio suffer from short attention spans.

Various studies have attempted to correlate music lessons and activities with attention span, measuring the latter by observing instances of attention behavior.

As the child moves through the preschool years, attention span continues to grow.

So let me remind you: we're talking attention spans here.

Our news and civic attention spans have shrunk to bite-sized pieces, and rollercoaster polls suggest the American public can't hold onto a story for more than one or two press cycles.

Multiple campus locations, a wide array of target audiences, limited attention span, and e-mail spare filters add to the challenge.

They make us fat, less human and they cut our attention span.

If your audience is tired which would restrict their receptiveness, overwhelmed or aggravated, your message might not be not be well-received because the audience's attention span has decreased.

American society has developed a short attention span in an evergrowing, fast-paced world.

In a recent article in the Sunday supplement, Parade, he argues that our ability to concentrate is being destroyed by the barrage of commercials that interrupt television shows every few minutes and dramatically reduce the viewers' attention span. Mailer notes that the number of books read annually by teenagers declined more than 25 percent from 1982 to 2002.

The assumption is that we all have the attention span of a gnat.

Another thing that doesn't last is the attention span of most of these legislators.