Topic: smartphone usage

The widespread use of smartphones in daily life has led to concerns about their impact on our attention span and ability to focus. Despite these concerns, relatively few studies have attempted to address whether smartphone usage is negatively associated with our ability to sustain attention. The current study aimed to establish whether higher smartphone usage is linked to impaired performance on a demanding sustained attention task where participants were required to continuously monitor a checkerboard stimulus for intermittent changes in stimulus contrast. Sixty-nine participants completed th