"divide your attention between" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to encourage someone to focus on two or more different things. For example, "Divide your attention between work and family to ensure there is a balance in your life."
Unless you understand the language, you must continually divide your attention between the drama below and the screen high above.
But growing up Apatow style just means learning to divide your attention between your joystick and the little lady who loves you just the way you are, flab and all.
You simply cannot divide your attention between work and your children in your home office any more than you could in a regular office.
It measures your ability to divide your attention between two tasks.
By then, dividing your attention between two games, and two sports, will have become an art form.
In assembling these ingredients, they divide their attention between actual and exaggerated images of the labor movement — between the facts of its history and the propaganda.
But each "switch" itself consumes CPU time, much like the reduction in problem-solving effectiveness that occurs when engineers divide their attention between problems.
His success has made it difficult on his parents, however, who have to divide their attention between two sons coaching playoff teams.
Today the throng had to divide its attention between Courts 13 and 17, where Laura Robson and the little-known qualifier Daniel Evans were playing at the same time.
Since "Mummies" first went up at the Field Museum, at the tail end of Barack Obama's first term, it has asked its visitors to divide their attention between the demurely wrapped dead and detailed CT scans of their interiors.
Here they are showing seven large color photographs that divide their attention between an ancient London bookshop and an ancient castle garden and are laced together by a church-bell sound piece.
