Screen-based training reduces attention to stimulus-poking in ordinary thought.

Evidence

But we are mostly not accustomed to thinking in this more expansive way. And that’s because we’ve mostly been trained (by screen-work, by screen-school, by screen-play, and above all by the human frackers themselves) to think of attention as a singular thing. As our ability to poke this stimulus. Every time it flashes or pings. Our ability to stay with the stream of notifications. Our immersive swipe-o-philia. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 204