Roanoke-based Attention Point announced Wednesday a collaboration with a company that uses brainwaves to aid in diagnosing ADHD. Sam English, CEO of Attention Point, said his company’s ...

Our short and ever-dwindling attention span. I’d happily take a bite-sized version of our concentration disorder. Consider this: The average human attention span is now shorter than a goldfish’s.

It’s easy to assume that we point in order to call attention to things, but as scientists argue in Science Advances, the real reason we do so has nothing to do with using our finger as an arrow.