Attention Residue

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Attention residue means that unfinished ideas tend to linger in our minds, even if we have switched to a different task. The mental capacity is switched from the Executive Attention Network to the Default Mode Network. This is usually the reason why Multitasking doesnt exist, because even though we switched tasks, the previous task tends to linger in our mind, taking valuable resources and limiting our ability to be productive and finish the task at hand.

The less spare resources we have, the more likely we are to experience Burnout and Stress.

Some claim that it can be used for our benefit. Deliberately leaving creative tasks unfinished, like stopping to write at the middle instead of the end of a chapter, or creating an unfinished draft will increase Ideation through our downtime brain.

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🔼Topic:: Memory, Attention and cognitive load (MOC) ↩️Origin:: 🔗Link::