Anticipating your own performance at work or school may hinder your pre-performance memory. Also, the presence of an audience may be an important contributory factor to the deficit, suggests a study.The study was published in the 'Journal of Memory and Language'."Performance anticipation could weaken memory because people tend to focus on the details of their upcoming presentation instead of paying attention to information that occurs before their performance," said lead author Noah Forrin, a postdoctoral fellow in Psychology at Waterloo. Читать дальше...