Notes
What the research says about watching, learning and resting, and how sure it is. No health promises: each note links the studies it is based on.
- Soft fascination: can slow patterns rest your attention? What attention restoration theory says about scenes that hold attention gently, what a review of 31 studies found, and what it means for watching patterns.
- Why a good question helps you remember People remember better what they are curious about, and even what they meet meanwhile: a 2014 brain-imaging study, and why our Shorts open with a question.
- Fractals and stress: what the studies actually found Do fractal patterns calm people? What Richard Taylor’s early studies and an EEG study of fractal images found, and how far the evidence really goes.
- Screens before sleep: how to use Wind down well A screen at bedtime can delay sleep: what a sleep-laboratory study found about light-emitting devices, and how to use Wind down so it helps you stop.