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Your Brain on Channel Surfing

May 16, 2017

channel surfing

It’s Sunday morning and I am looking through tweets while watching the news. With smartphones now ubiquitous, such situation are increasingly common: taking in information with multiple interruptions, often by choice. In a new study, researchers studied this phenomenon on the neural level by having people watch movie clips in different combinations – finding significant […]

By lmunoz Filed Under: featured Tagged With: attention, distraction, time

Stop Interrupting Me! Distractions Kill Writing Quality

August 12, 2014

Guest Post by Cyrus Foroughi, George Mason University The day before I began writing this post, I decided to run a small-scale case study on myself. I wanted to count the number of times I was interrupted during the day. I did not silence my phone nor did I disable any notifications (e.g., email, Facebook) […]

By lmunoz Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: distraction, error

From Age-Related Increase in Distractibility to Why Handshakes Matter

October 13, 2012

What’s new in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience Driven to distraction: Age-related differences Older adults are considered more susceptible to distraction while driving in traffic or undertaking other daily activities that require us to keep track of multiple objects at a time. Researchers have understood for some time that this age-related increase in distractibility is […]

By lmunoz Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: aging, body language, distraction Leave a Comment

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