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Cognitive load

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Nature restores your capacity to focus on hard tasks.
Attention Restoration Theory suggests that natural environments replenish your depleted cognitive resources, unlike ur…
You lose cognitive precision when performing two tasks simultaneously.
Cognitive load theory shows that your working memory has a limited capacity for information processing.…
You outsource your memory to a search engine.
The brain is less likely to retain information if it knows that data can be easily retrieved elsewhere.…