The phrase "attention shifting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing psychology, focus, or cognitive processes where one redirects their attention from one task or stimulus to another.
Example: "The study examined the effects of attention shifting on task performance in multitasking scenarios."
Alternatives: "focus transition" or "attention redirection".
The above discussion dealt with the timing of attention shifting, that is the moment at which attentional resources become significant enough at the new location to affect either reaction times or detection rates.
But it really is about attention shifting.
"It's fun to keep everyone's attention shifting from place to place.
I had to choose where to place my attention, shifting back and forth from stage and script, always missing something.
Results support the hypothesis that depression is related to impaired internal attention shifting when processing affective material.
Attention shifting was the fourth significant predictor, allowing pedestrians to adapt their crossing strategy to the oncoming road-traffic information.
Peters gave men and women volunteers a variety of cognitive tests, including measures of working memory, planning ability, attention-shifting ability and ability with numbers or numeracy.
The crossing of borders, the disorientation of travel, the melding of cultures, the attention-shifting of modern communication that puts the focus of minds on places far from the bodies at hand — these have been Wenders's themes for the past forty years, and he has reworked them in films that bear, at the same time, a narrowly conservative and Hollywood-nostalgic aesthetic.
Interestingly, Ozonoff et al. pointed out that not all types of attention-shifting are impaired in ASD, only those that require prefrontal cortical function [ 12].
In monkeys too, MFC (both anterior cingulate cortex and adjacent ventromedial prefrontal cortex) contains neurons that represent integrated information about the value of a target and its location in contralateral space in an attention-shifting task (Kaping et al., 2011).
The time-varying ssVEP amplitude as examined here has frequently been used in the context of attention-shifting studies, and has pointed to reflexive orienting towards task-relevant stimuli within 100 to 200 ms [ 29].
