CORAL GABLES, Fla. (March 11, 2024) – The longer a person spends on a task, the more their mind starts to wander—regardless of whether the activity is difficult or easy. In fact, toward the ...

The idea to study the potentially beneficial influence of mind wandering on information processing occurred to us during the COVID pandemic, when we had plenty of time to mind wander,” says Péter ...

Children who ate diets more closely aligned with the MIND diet performed better on a task measuring attentional control, ...

For example, in our studies, people who are more intelligent don’t mind wander so often when the task is hard but can do it more when tasks are easy.

How the brain focuses on what's in mind Date: September 6, 2022 Source: Picower Institute at MIT Summary: When holding information in mind, neural activity is more focused when and where there are ...

Task avoidance not only stalls you out in the moment, it sets you up to repeat the experience next time. When you avoid something that makes you anxious, what Dr. Hendriksen called “the two lies ...

The thing about task lists is that they are filled with specific things you need to accomplish. Combine that with an ever-expanding inbox, and you have a recipe for busy work days. advertisement ...