0 the length of time that someone can keep their thoughts and interest fixed on something:
1 the period during which you can stay interested or listen carefully to something
The participants noted a decline in the attention span, as with that required to read a book.
Shaping attention span : an operant conditioning procedure to improve neurocognition and functioning in schizophrenia.
Dissent may have stirred gentlemen's interests in 1664, but their attention span proved short indeed.
He is hyperactive and has a poor attention span.
It is important to recognize that child characteristics such as attention span may play a role in interactional behavior.
One possibility is that infants who did this had better domain-general processing, such as an increased attention span.
The attention span of the children was measured for each task.
The duration of each task was measured to assess the attention span in relation to the different partners the child had played with.
