From: The Atlantic
The Attention-Span Panic
May 12, 2026
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A great irony of this contemporary insecurity about attention is that, compared with the rest of the animal kingdom, the human attention span is really not that impressive. Although we have many exceptional cognitive abilities (abstract thought, for instance), Raymond Klein, an experimental psychologist at Dalhousie University, told me that a house cat staring at a mouse hole can marshal much more impressive attentional resources than the average person.
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