The phrase "attention spreading" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing cognitive processes, psychology, or attention management, particularly when referring to the distribution of attention across multiple stimuli or tasks.
Example: "In a multitasking environment, attention spreading can lead to decreased performance as individuals struggle to focus on several tasks at once."
Alternatives: "divided attention" or "distributed attention".
Part 2 (to be shown next Monday) is less focused, its attention spread over Junior's five sons.
Soon the attention spread to Bear Stearns as market players began to question the firm's ability to finance itself, sending its stock into a tailspin.
These results, taken together, provide strong support for the hypothesis that attention spreads among items linked by Gestalt grouping cues, enhancing the impact of flankers linked to a target.
One example of attention-demanding grouping is the contour-grouping task, where object-based attention spreads over contour elements that have to be grouped into elongated curves (see Fig. 4c; Houtkamp et al., 2003; Roelfsema, Houtkamp, & Korjoukov, 2010; Scholte, Spekreijse, & Roelfsema, 2001).
When subjects were asked to respond to the direction of the motion, attention spread from the motion to the object, regardless of which object was moving: Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) results showed that the PPA was activated more strongly when the house moved, and the FFA was activated more strongly when the face moved.
With our attentions spread so thin, it behooves families to be available on as many devices as possible.
These effects can be explained if attention spreads from the target to the flankers if they are linked by Gestalt grouping cues.
Attention spreads among related items to form perceptual groups, and linked items are thereby either jointly selected or blocked from further processing.
According to the IGT, attention spreads from one circle to the next until the whole string is attended, and we observed that the reaction times of subjects indeed increased linearly with the number of items that had to be grouped using displays comparable to those shown in Fig. 10b (Houtkamp & Roelfsema, 2010).
Connections between neurons that code image elements of the same elongated object are enabled (Fig. 13a), but the base representation does not reveal whether element 1 belongs to the same object as element 2 or element 3. Transitive grouping of elements 1 and 2 does not take place until attention spreads across the enabled connections to make this additional, incremental grouping explicit.
This anger has attracted media attention, quickly spreading all over the country.
