Sentence examples for distracted information from inspiring English sources

Searchlet is handy for all Internet users who want to increase their productivity (or just keep their browser tabs manageable), but I think it's especially useful for students, researchers and easily distracted information junkies.

If your attention's distracted, information drops out of working memory into short-term memory, from which you've got to retrieve it if you want to use it again.

Those who yell the loudest, after all, are likely to be the ones who are heard in this easily distracted, information-overloaded culture.

Findings from many disparate tasks and stimuli have converged to lead to the conclusion that this ability to maintain information for later recall in the face of distraction entails the ability to attend to relevant information while filtering out distracting information (Awh & Vogel, 2008; Cowan, 2001).

This left lateralization was anticipated, because noise dots were distracting: damage to left parietal cortex impairs patients' abilities to ignore salient distracting information [ 21], whereas healthy adults are poorer at inhibiting high-salience distracters during TMS over left PPC [ 22].

"What I'm trying to keep away from is lobbying, coercion and distracting information," he said.

Blocking out distracting information is exactly what researchers find that bilinguals do well.

Dyson, who spent a decade writing and researching it, bombards the reader with a mind-boggling stream of distracting information that adds little to his tale.

In a study published last year, researchers at the University of Toronto found that the visual areas in people in positive moods picked up more background detail, even when they were instructed to block out distracting information during a computer task.

This measures performance in the presence of distracting information: they were asked to respond as quickly as possible to the direction of an arrow flanked by other arrows that point in the same or opposite direction.

Other sites were cluttered or inundated with distracting information from advertisements.