The Sacrifice of Alerting in Active Short Video Users: Evidence from Executive Control and Default Mode Network Functional Connectivity.
Neuropsychologia October 3, 2025 Guanghui Zhai, Yang Feng, Xin Ling et al.
Human attention is a limited resource increasingly taxed by continuous, socially embedded media streams, but how habitual short-video use shapes core attentional operations and their neural substrates remains unclear. Here we distinguish active from passive short video usage and examine whether they differentially relate to the alerting, orienting, and executive components of attention and to...