Neuroscience Research
The article selected is “Cognitive Distraction at Mealtime Decreases Amount Consumed in Healthy Young Adults” by Liguori, Nikolaus and Nickols-Richardson. The study was done by recruiting 119 participants who could help in finding out the effect of distractions on the memory and amount of food eaten. The participants who gave consent to participate in the study were allowed to play computer games as they took their meals(Liguori et al., 2020). The amount of food given to them was weighed before they played the games and after they ate while playing. Essentially, this could help in knowing whether the amount of food taken while playing considered less than the amount given and how less it was as compared to eating without playing the games.
Something new from the finding of this study is that when people eat while using the computer, they end up eating less food, have a poor memory of what they eat, and they enjoy it less. The participants cannot recall the amount of food that was served to them and the amount of food that they ate. The study showed that there is a significant difference in the memory of each individual who participated in computer games as compared to those who did not participate. The study also showed that there is a difference between mindless eating and distracted eating(Liguori et al., 2020).
I find this study interesting because most of the time we think that we can do more than one task at a go and give the best results but this study as made me believe that we cannot provide our best when we divide our attention towards more than one task at the same time. As such, it is essential to deal with one issue at a time because when we do so, we can give a detailed account of what happened before, during, and after the activity. We can also express our feeling about the tasks when we do one thing at a time as compared to when we do many things at the same time.
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References
Liguori, C. A., Nikolaus, C. J., & Nickols-Richardson, S. M. (2020). Cognitive Distraction at Mealtime Decreases Amount Consumed in Healthy Young Adults: A Randomized Crossover Exploratory Study. The Journal of Nutrition.