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Does Technology Help Or Hurt Focus?

Richard Bradbury | Audrey Raj | Christine Wong

25-Jan-19 12:00

Does Technology Help Or Hurt Focus?

Technology is usually blamed as the cause of shorter attention spans and lack of focus. However, researchers documented improvements in attention among healthy young adults who played a game app called Decoder twice a week for a month. So does technology help or hurt your ability to focus?


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Categories:  Personal Development,  Entrepreneurship,  SME

Tags:  attention span,  concentration,  app,  focus,  technology, 


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