Distractions Help You Learn? [Quote]

In the end it didn’t seem to matter what the distraction was during recall as long as subjects had had a distraction during learning. Everybody who had been distracted in both learning and recall performed better than those who were distracted while learning but undistracted during recall.

An important finding was that the effect Song measured did not depend on keeping the external context –for instance the ambient surroundings –consistent. There just had to be the same degree of distraction...