Reduction of Environmental Distraction to Facilitate Cognitive Performance
When faced with a difficult task, people often look at the sky or close their eyes. This behavior is functional: the reduction of distractions in the environment can improve performance on cognitive tasks, including memory retrieval. Reduction of visual distractions can be operationalized through ey...
Format: | eBook |
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media SA
2015
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Series: | Frontiers Research Topics
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Online Access: | Open Access: DOAB, download the publication Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication |
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