Brian, that’s an interesting hypothesis! I wonder though, the reason tapping is an effective distraction task is that it has to be rhythmic and is not congruent to the task. Isn’t typing quite different because it is congruent? Most distractor tasks - either auditory, visual 1/
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Or mechanical as per this paper that covers a wide range of distractors. Interesting to consider typing one’s thoughts as a distraction if have or haven’t sufficiently automatized the typing. Cool line of thinking
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