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