Selectively Distracted: Divided Attention and Memory for Important Information
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Selectively Distracted: Divided Attention and Memory for Important Information.
Distractions and multitasking are generally detrimental to learning and memory. Nevertheless, people often study while listening to music, sitting in noisy coffee shops, or intermittently checking their e-mail. The current experiments examined how distractions and divided attention influence one's ability to selectively remember valuable information. Participants studied lists of words that ran...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Science
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0956-7976,1467-9280
DOI: 10.1177/0956797617702502