Study seeks to better understand terminal lucidity in children
Massey University associate professor will work with international team to study terminal lucidity in children
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Massey University associate professor will work with international team to study terminal lucidity in children
Study found no correlation to substantiate the claim that better autobiographical memory enhances creativity or creative thinking.
Human multitasking suffers from a central attentional bottleneck preventing parallel performance of central mental operations, leading to profound deferments in task performance. While previous research assumed that the deferment is caused by a mere waiting time (refractory period), we show that the bottleneck requires executive functions (EF; active scheduling account) accounting for a profound part of the deferment. Three participant groups with EF impairments (dyslexics, highly neurotics, deprived smokers) showed worse multitasking performance than respective control groups. Three further g...