Alejandro Yedas's 2011 study from the University of Illinois Champaign argues attention isn't declining, just pointed the wrong way. The brain neutralizes constant stimuli, like how you stop noticing your clothes until you think about them. Attention is misdirected, not missing.
There's another study done in 2011 by Alejandro Yedas in the University of Illinois Champaign. He was looking at a lot of research and saying people are focusing on saying like, hey, your attention span is the problem. He says attention isn't the problem. Your attention is always on something. It just might not be on the thing it needs to be on. So he then took that further and did some research, and I was noticing that From a sensory standpoint, our body actually neutralizes a stimulation if that stimulant is constant. Think about the clothes that you're wearing. You, up until this moment, didn't realize that they have a sensation on your skin. The fact now that I'm bringing attention to it, you can kind of feel when you move a little bit, the fabric rubbing on, on your skin. Because of the way our brain works, because that was a constant stimulus up until that moment, your brain had neutralized it.
