Memory failure predicted by attention lapsing and media multitasking | Nature

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Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript. Advertisement Nature volume 587, pages 87–91 (2020)Cite this article 24k Accesses 61 Citations 643 Altmetric Metrics details With the explosion of digital media and technologies, scholars, educators and the public have become increasingly vocal about the role that an ‘attention economy’ has in our lives1. The rise of the current digital culture coincides with longstanding scientific questions about why humans sometimes remember and sometimes forget, and why some individuals remember better than others2,3,4,5,6. Here we examine whether spontaneous attention lapses—in the moment7,8,9,10,11,12, across individuals13,14,15 a

Subjects Attention Human behaviour Long-term memory Abstract With the explosion of digital media and technologies, scholars, educators and the public have become increasingly vocal about the role that an ‘attention economy’ has in our lives 1 . The rise of the current digital culture coincides with longstanding scientific questions about why humans sometimes remember and sometimes forget, and why some individuals remember better than others 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 . Here we examine whether spontaneous attention lapses—in the moment 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , across individuals 13 , 14 , 15 and as a

Memory failure predicted by attention lapsing and media multitasking | Nature

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