Andrew Huberman· PhD
if your phone is upside down on a table or in your bag in the same room, it lowers cognitive performance.
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if your phone is upside down on a table or in your bag in the same room, it lowers cognitive performance.
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if it's in another room, it seems that your cognitive performance returns to its previously higher levels.
So, their cognitive performance is diminished.
So, the phone is really a cognitive detractor under those conditions.