1/ To reduce distraction and boost focus, nothing works better than linking performance to rewards 💰 But what about focusing to avoid penalties? Turns out — it works too… just not as much as combining both!

Check out our new preprint 👇
w/ Ed Vogel and @monicarosenb.bsky.social

2/Our RSA analysis also shows that this distractibility signature is unique — independent of failures in cognitive control (goal maintenance) or selective attention to relevant stimuli.

1/ Why are we so easily distracted? 🧠 In our new EEG preprint w/ Henry Jones, @monicarosenb.bsky.social and @edvogel.bsky.social we show that distractibility is associated w/ reduced neural connectivity — and can be predicted from EEG with ~80% accuracy using machine learning.