How Does Gluten Affect Distractibility?
People who are anxious find it harder to tune out distractions and take longer to shift their attention from one task to another, British researchers report. In one test, researchers measured participants' eye movements as they read they read a story on a computer screen that had been embedded with "distracter" words. Investigators found that anxious people took longer to read the story because they dwelled on the irrelevant words, especially when they thought they would be tested on their...
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