The Relationship Between Dopamine and Attention

I find when I'm using social media a lot, I have a harder time focusing and reading. The dopamine that I'm hitting my brain with from scrolling and the effect that that's having on my attention is so interesting. So definitely dopamine is a real thing. But specifically, we're not meant to be staring at a two dimensional device. And if you can think about even just the eye movements required to engage with a screen compared to a book, they're totally different. On a screen, there's more eye movements. They're more sporadic and less organized or less methodical across the page. You're not holding the book to know in three-dimensional space where to aim your eyes

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