Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Distracted to Learn?

Surprising new research may rewrite learning theory as Brown University scientists contend that distractions do not necessarily impede the learning process of a motor task.
Investigators discovered that if attention was as divided during recall of a motor task as it was during learning the task, people performed as if there were no distractions at either stage.
Thus, the real issue is that inconsistent distraction can impair our recollection of the task...


http://psychcentral.com/news/2014/12/10/distracted-to-learn/78452.html

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Dr. Charles R. Davenport
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