The phrase "impede concentration" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to hinder or disrupt one's ability to focus or pay attention. Example: The loud construction noise outside the classroom window was impeding my concentration during the exam.
As early as 1936, the German critic Walter Benjamin warned that cameras were instruments of distraction that impeded concentration and robbed art of its "aura".
There are two problems: the one stressed by Mr. Horowitz, a design manifestly unfriendly to people engaged in research because its openness magnifies noise and impedes concentration; and the obliviousness of some personnel to their obligation in any library, i.e., quiet.
Excessive ruminating, for example, fosters biased thinking, impedes concentration and diminishes a person's ability to solve problems.
SMFP compound impedes concentration and purity of DNA physical samples, thereby affecting the physical sample by hindering forensic profiling through damaging DNA molecule to a no applicability and acceptability state.
A longitudinal study among 123 employees from different organizations was conducted to investigate whether need for recovery and home work interference (HWI) impeded concentration at work 1 month later, and whether concentration adversely affected in-role performance over time.
Igor Stravinsky evidently devised a variation; his family submitted to lunch in silence so as not to impede his concentration, hence Drusilla Modjeska's title.
First, as Mr Zapatero says, "it spreads power and impedes its concentration," and in that way reflects "the best liberal thinking".
At solventogenesis, furfural reduction was impeded when concentrations of acetone, ethanol and butanol were high (3.40 g/L ± 0.27 g/L, 0.22 g/L ± 0.02 g/L, and 5.93 g/L ± 0.12 g/L, respectively).
Our data demonstrate that intense competition from neighboring hospitals does not necessarily impede case volume concentration within a new specialty center.
Anyone who has made a long-awaited pilgrimage to an exhibit or a room in a museum only to find the room filled with viewers listening to a guide whose talk — for all its knowledge and enthusiasm — fills the room even more and impedes the desired concentration and contemplation will find "National Gallery" as much of a trial as I did.
