Oh
closing your eyes helps you remember
things an article written by Psychology
Today titled why do you close your eyes
to remember there's a very good job
explaining why closing your eyes helps
you remember things better it says that
closing your eyes prevents you from
distractions that occupy your visual
senses it seems that your brains have a
limited capacity when it comes to
processing information related to
specific senses for example you are only
able to process so much visual
information at once when you ask
somebody to recall a visual object
chances are they're going to close their
eyes or look up this helps minimalize
visual distractions it also appears that
depending on what we're trying to
remember sound sight smell taste or
touch closing off distractions to those
senses helps you remember better we
already used vision as an example for
sound the article also touches upon a
study that shows that blocking out sound
related distractions when trying to
remember a sound helps improve a call at
this point this logic seems to make
sense and perhaps truly applies to the
other senses as well I also remember as
a part of a memory lab that I
volunteered for my supervisor had me
research a little about memory and
sensory processing I forgot the name of
the concept of the model but it
basically says that when you multitask
you aren't actually multitasking you are
essentially dividing up your attention
or resources to various tasks this also
means that when you multitask your
attention on each task aren't at their
100% it supports the idea that our
brains has a limited capacity when it
comes to dealing with various senses
another key point of the model was that
if you perform two tasks that require
the same sensory input and output you're
more likely to divide up the resources
for those activities you're also more
likely to have difficulties performing
two or more tasks that require the same
sense what are your thoughts on this
article do you have any strange stories
regarding remembering things or
multitasking let us know in the comments
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