Nature: Still watching the computer while playing with your cell phone? Be careful of memory loss

With the explosive development of digital media and technology, scholars, educators and the public are increasingly called for the role of the "attention economy" in our lives.
the rise of digital culture is at the same time as the long-standing scientific question of why humans sometimes remember, sometimes forget, and why some people remember better than others.
here, researchers published a paper in the journal Nature to examine whether spontaneous attentional lapses are associated with negative memory when it comes to cross-personal and multi-tasking functions as everyday media.
using electroencephalograms and pupil measurements, the researchers recorded 80 young adults (average age, 21.7 years old) performing goal-oriented occasional coding and retrieval tasks.
use task-based and questionnaire measurements to further quantify the quality level of continuous attention.
Using test-to-trial retrieval data, the researchers found that attention from strong-straight errors measured by rear α power and pupil diameter was associated with reduced nerve signals in target coding and memory, as well as behavioral forgetting.
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attention deficit partly explains why we remember or forget in the immediate, and why some people remember better than others.
it is worth noting that heavier media multitasness is associated with a tendency to pay attention to mistakes and forget.