The phrase "a shift in attention" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a change in focus or concentration from one subject or task to another.
Example: "During the meeting, there was a noticeable shift in attention when the topic of budget cuts was introduced."
Alternatives: "a change in focus" or "a redirection of attention".
For example, the dopaminergic input to striatum and prefrontal cortex is thought to signal unexpected events and facilitate a shift in attention to promote new learning (3), and prefrontal attentional processes have been shown to selectively "tune" into task-relevant stimuli during learning (4).
With the rise of psychoanalysis came a shift in attention from the communal to the individual experience.
Internal divisions between solidarity activists, and weariness on the part of police and protestors alike, led to a shift in attention from the neighborhood.
"The notion of large-scale entitlement reform has lost its appeal," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a Republican economist, citing a shift in attention toward overhauling the tax code.
"I see it as a shift in attention, so that the politics of AIDS is larger on the radar screen than the politics of contraception, and to me that is a needed and appropriate shift," she said.
The ad-skipping features on hard-drive recorders like TiVo and ReplayTV are merely the technical embodiments of a shift in attention we already effect all the time -- when we channel-hop, talk through commercials or assimilate them as a kind of static.
This shift in the tonalities of her writing was accompanied by a shift in geographical attention.
Researchers saw a shift in investor attention away from consumer products and services and towards business and financial services.
This process involves disengagement from the currently attended item, a shift in spatial attention, and then reengagement onto the new item.
The paper explores the changing nature of social issues, involving a shift in political attention from the needs of the individual to broader community and societal concerns.
But Obama's optimism seems to reflect a shift in international attention toward the problem.
