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Disengagement during lectures: Media multitasking and mind wandering in university classrooms

Wammes, Jeffrey D.; Ralph, Brandon; Mills, Caitlin; Bosch, Nigel; Duncan, Tracy L.; Smilek, Daniel (Elsevier, 2019-04-01)

In university classrooms, the use of laptops or smartphones for purposes unrelated to the lecture is on the rise. Consequently, it is important to understand how frequently this behavior occurs, to track whether it increases ...
Interfering With Memory Retrieval: The Cost of Doing Two Things at Once

Wammes, Jeffrey, D. (University of Waterloo, 2014-04-29)

A dual-task paradigm was used to infer the processes critical for episodic memory retrieval by measuring susceptibility to memory interference from different distracting tasks. Research suggests that retrieval interference ...
On the mnemonic benefits of drawing

Wammes, Jeffrey (University of Waterloo, 2017-08-02)

Researchers have long sought to explore means through which the amount, and quality of information one is able to remember can be improved. Attention has been paid variously to multimodal encoding, visual learning, and ...