Reduction of Environmental Distraction to Facilitate Cognitive Performance

• Yazar: Timothy John Hollins (auth)
• Diğer Yazarlar: Annelies Vredeveldt (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Seri Bilgileri: Frontiers Research Topics
• Konular: Psychology; distraction; eye-closure; eyewitness memory; modality-specific interference; Cognitive Load
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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...