Study Finds Human Attention Has Not Declined in the Digital Age

A new study comparing Austrian adults' attention task performance in 2025 with matched samples from the early 2000s found no widespread decline, suggesting digital-era cognitive changes are domain-specific rather than a broad attention crisis.

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