In this @Quora answer I surface one of the 1000s of empirical studies that inform my #VoiceFirst manifesto:
"Experiment 3 demonstrated that manual tapping produces a similar pattern of (memory) impairment to that of chewing gum”
When we type, we tap...
https://www.quora.com/Does-chewing-gum-impair-short-term-memory/answer/Brian-Roemmele?ch=2&srid=Pi3 …
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Replying to @BrianRoemmele @Quora
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
! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4114291/#!po=50.0000 … /21 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Lisa, thank you! Interesting stuff. The studies I have seen show there was not a rhythmic cycle to the tapping however they cite a studies that used tapping to metronomes and music with similar short term memory loss.
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