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What Prevents Concentration: American Psychologists Find Out
10.10.2024 08:56
American scientists are interested in one pressing question: what prevents a person from concentrating?
This is an important moment in learning, orientation on the ground and in other equally important circumstances.
Research on this topic was conducted by employees of the Canadian Rotman Institute together with American colleagues from the University of Wisconsin.
The results of the work were published in the scientific journal Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.
Research by scientists
Having recruited a group of 26 volunteers, the experts conducted four tests.
The testing involved acquiring information. Students had to remember a face or object, assimilate the information they had received, and also had to regulate their memories.
They were asked to remember the object using visual search, memory suppression, or memory replacement.
At the same time, the scientists recorded the participants’ eye movements to understand which object attracted the most attention.
Conclusions of scientists
It turned out that the connection between human attention and memory is not automatic, that is, it can be regulated by a person.
The associations that some people use to remember things are not always helpful.
The fact is that when trying to concentrate on completing an important task, a person can be disturbed by any little thing, even a word heard or read.
It can trigger memories from long-term memory that the brain switches to, which interferes with the task.
These are only the first conclusions of scientists and the experiment needs to be continued.
