(Source: Scientific American) What you don't "see" may distract you anyway.
TROUBLE FOCUSING? Could be subliminal messages playing with your mind. A new study shows that images people don't even realize they're seeing can break their concentration. A new study shows that subconscious signals interfere with concentration, causing people to become easily distracted and falter on even the simplest of tasks. When people concentrate, they focus on the task at hand and filter out information irrelevant to what they are doing. A new report, however, published in this week's Science, says that sometimes unrelated info slips through, even if it is not consciously processed.
TROUBLE FOCUSING? Could be subliminal messages playing with your mind. A new study shows that images people don't even realize they're seeing can break their concentration. A new study shows that subconscious signals interfere with concentration, causing people to become easily distracted and falter on even the simplest of tasks. When people concentrate, they focus on the task at hand and filter out information irrelevant to what they are doing. A new report, however, published in this week's Science, says that sometimes unrelated info slips through, even if it is not consciously processed.
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