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Distraction, if consistent, does not hinder learning

December 9, 2014 by

A new study challenges the idea that distraction is necessarily a problem for learning. Researchers found that if attention was as divided during recall of a motor task as it was during learning the task, people performed as if there were no distractions at either stage.

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