People who continued to train on a visual task for 20 minutes after they mastered it locked in that learning, shielding it from interference by new learning, a new study in Nature Neuroscience shows. The Brown University study, in which people learned visual perception tasks, suggests that you should keep practicing for a little while… Continue reading “Overlearning” A Task Can Help in The Long Run
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Another Bad Thing About Texting
Any signal from a cell phone – even a little “ding” that indicates a text – can weaken your ability to focus on a task, according to a new Florida State University study. In fact, the signal from a phone is comparable to the effects seen when people are actively using their own phone. “The… Continue reading Another Bad Thing About Texting