How Does a Word Puzzle Affect Attention Retardance?

Cal: My question is about sophi leroy's work on attention residue and the way it inhibits our ability to perform later tasks. In her study, she's asking participants to perform a task after either completing or not completing a word puzzle. If a simple word puzzle can impact our performance this much, i would think that something that activates the emotional reptilian brain would make this even worse. Cal: It's true, anecdotally speaking, there's two different types of cognitive context switch.