The Effects of Interrupted Tasks

The inability to complete, prioritize tasks and to focus on one thing at a time until it's completed reeks habit with our perceptual categorization. When we don't have cognitive closure, the unconscious regions of the brain keep the incompleted task alive, active. The amount of ambient stress in skin censers and in pulse a, your pulse and in how much oxygen you're using up goes up significantly because you haven't completed the circle. You haven't completed what's called cognitive clo. And so while work environments that are too stimulating can contribute to cognitive overload by far and away a greater concern is when we are subject to being interrupted by work, colleagues, family members, pets, dogs and