Interesting- activate your motor system doodling rather than allow yourself to daydream and interfere with your articulatory system that should be paying attention to the speaker.
This reminds me on a study they just started in my lab. Subjects perform a memory task that heavily relies on mental articulation. Subjects do the test phase three times- once with no distraction, another time with finger tapping (motor), and another time saying 'the, the, the, the...'. The first two acting as control vs the third showing impairment caused by a distracted articulatory system. This seems to map on to the article's boredom, doodling, and daydreaming theory pretty well.
NPR has so many good articles and yet I never seem to navigate there myself.
Feel free to change the site's appearance as you like. With a wiki style, it can end up however we like. Also, invite anyone you think will post good articles and/or contribute to the commentary.
Notes
3/25/09 Eric: Dave, site changes look awesome. I made some more.
3/25/09 Jess: I have access to online Nature. Will post or email pdf or something.
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3/26/09 Eric: Frequently updated and interesting blogs. Any recommendations? (add below to News Sites)
Interesting- activate your motor system doodling rather than allow yourself to daydream and interfere with your articulatory system that should be paying attention to the speaker.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me on a study they just started in my lab. Subjects perform a memory task that heavily relies on mental articulation. Subjects do the test phase three times- once with no distraction, another time with finger tapping (motor), and another time saying 'the, the, the, the...'. The first two acting as control vs the third showing impairment caused by a distracted articulatory system. This seems to map on to the article's boredom, doodling, and daydreaming
theory pretty well.
NPR has so many good articles and yet I never seem to navigate there myself.