The current trend in productivity books, personal coaches and bloggers [...] is to stuff more and more things into each idle hour, until you are working all waking day. But you don’t need to move really far to find some other kind of advice: In a book published in 1910, How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett already suggested that you need to claim several hours a week for improving yourself.
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130-139(2007)I definitely recommend this article. The basic design and analysis could be very easily ported for our study. The one thing I am not sure about is the sensitivity of the task. One thing that is interesting is we could very easily run behavioral pilots with the task and check for reaction time differences. But the design of the study would be easily ported, and we could change out the tasks easily enough. I will ask Chris Frith what task he might recommend for our purposes at our next lab meeting..
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