Active vs passive media multitasking and memory for lecture materials.

Access to digital technology in the 21st century has led to the emergence of media multitasking (MMT), which involves attempting to engage with multiple streams of media at the same time. This behaviour, which is frequently considered to be a form of inattention, has become increasingly prevalent in educational settings, such as undergraduate lectures. The aim of the present study was to examine media-multitasking (MMT) during an asynchronous online lecture by giving participants the opportunity to engage with a secondary, non-required media stream (i.

Examining the relation between oral contraceptive use and attentional engagement in everyday life.

Oral contraceptives (OCs) used by women worldwide include artificial estradiol and progesterone, which can attach to receptors in the brain and potentially influence cognition. In the present studies, we examined the relation between OC use and self-reported everyday attention. We collected trait-level measures of mind wandering, attention-related errors, and attention lapses in undergraduate women using OCs (Study 1: OC group = 471, Study 2: OC group = 246) and naturally cycling women not using any form of hormonal contraceptives (Study 1: Non-OC group = 1,330, Study 2: Non-OC group = 929).

Sustained attention and the experience of flow.

The state of flow-often referred to as being "in the zone"-is characterized by the experience of deep, effortless concentration on the activity one is engaged in. While much of the flow literature seems to imply a tight link between flow and attention processes, relatively little work has assessed this question empirically. In the present study, we explored how the experience of flow relates to behavioural performance on the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART).

Loading… loading… The influence of download time on information search.

When browsing online, there is considerable variation in the amount of time that one has to wait for content to appear once the link to that content has been activated (i.e., clicked).

Deep, effortless concentration: re-examining the flow concept and exploring relations with inattention, absorption, and personality.

Conceptualizing the construct of flow in terms of 'deep and effortless concentration', we developed two measurement scales designed to index individual differences in flow during 'internal' tasks, such as thinking (deep effortless concentration: internal-DECI) and during 'external' tasks, such as while playing a sport (deep effortless concentration: external-DECE). These scales were highly correlated, indicating that individuals prone to experiencing flow in external contexts are also prone to experience flow in internal contexts. Nonetheless, a measurement model construing internal and external flow as related, but separate, constructs was found to fit the data significantly better than a model where they were construed as a single construct.

Boredom: Under-aroused and restless.

Boredom is a common experience associated with a range of negative outcomes. Debate remains as to whether boredom should be considered a high or low arousal state. We employed passages of text to induce either boredom or interest and probed self-reported levels of boredom, arousal, and restlessness.

Advantages of sentence-level fMRI language tasks in presurgical language mapping for temporal lobe epilepsy.

fMRI language mapping has become increasingly utilized for determining language dominance before surgical intervention for temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE). This study aimed to examine the differences between two classes of fMRI word generation tasks used in our clinic: tasks using a single word cue, referred to as simple generative tasks (SGTs), and tasks also involving sentence-level processing, referred to as sentence-level language tasks (SLTs). Specifically, we aimed to investigate the extent and laterality of activation and frontal-temporal connectivity during these language tasks and their relationship to clinical language measures.