Testing the attention-distractibility trait.
Forster and Lavie (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 40[1], 251–260, 2014; Psychological Science, 27[2], 203–212, 2016) found that task-irrelevant distraction correlated positively with a measure of mind-wandering and a report of attention-deficit/hyperactivity dis...
| Publicado en: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 49; no. 7; pp. 1490 - 1505 |
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