(Vocativ) In the end, it took a study to confirm that we're getting buried by studies — and it's impacting the brains of researchers. Some scientists formulated complex equations and concluded that with the new media age comes more material, and with more material comes a decline in our attention towards the important scientific studies.
The authors of the study found that the "decay" in scholars' attention towards influential studies in their field is speeding up. That means they forget about studies way more quickly than before because of the overwhelming amount of content
