ENHANCING COGNITION IN PRESENCE OF DISTRACTION AND/OR INTERRUPTION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide methods and tools for enhancing cognition and improving well being in an individual.SOLUTION: The methods involve presenting to an individual a task to be performed, presenting to the individual an interference, and receiving inputs from the individual. Where the interference is a distraction, the individual is to ignore the interference. Where the interference is an interrupter, the individual is instructed to respond to the interrupter as a secondary task and is said to be multi-tasking. Inputs are then also received from the individual pertaining to this secondary task. The methods encompass iterations of the steps of presenting to the individual and receiving the inputs, and generating analysis and/or feedback to the individual. The methods can further include conducting an analysis and/or generating feedback to the individual. The analysis can include a comparison of the performances with or without each type of interference.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1A