The average attention span for the notoriously ill-focused goldfish is nine seconds, but according to a new study from Microsoft Corp ...

We've heard it at lectures, and perhaps echoed the claim ourselves – the attention span of a goldfish is 9 seconds, and that of humans is less.

In fact, no one knows how to actually measure a goldfish's attention span. What has been measured by researchers is goldfish memory, which ...

Some say that human attention spans are now shorter than a goldfish. But that might not be exactly true. Are our attention spans shortening, ...

The average attention span for the notoriously ill-focused goldfish is nine seconds, but according to a new study from. Microsoft Corp., people ...

But then they point out that a goldfish has a nine second attention span. (Start looking now for a goldfish to be your lab partner.) So the good news is ...

In 2015, the Internet blew up with a shocking new statistic: "humans have an 8-second attention span. Less than that of a goldfish! And it's getting shorter!

Our individual attention spans are getting shorter and shorter some say 15 minutes others just eight seconds that's shorter than a goldfish.

It's research attempts to discover the impact that digital has had on the three main types of attention: sustained, selective and alternating.