Professor Catherine Loveday, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, was quoted in an article by The Telegraph and interviewed by talkRADIO about the effect of lockdown on people’s brains.
In The Telegraph article, Professor Loveday discussed how introducing new activities into daily routines improves concentration. She said: “Even walking down a new street or meeting a new person can wake the brain up again.”
Talking about uncertainty, she said: “We have this limited working memory capacity, which means we can only hold and manipulate a certain amount of information in our mind at any one time.”
Professor Loveday also spoke to talkRadio about studies that have been done, and said: “There have been a couple of studies – one that has shown that people subjectively report their memory to be worse and there has been one study that actually looked at measuring people’s memory to see whether it is not just that we feel our memory is worse but there is some kind of objective measure of it, and that was done in the first lockdown and it did find that there was a loss in some sort of areas of thinking and that included memory, but that it got better as we came out of lockdown.”
Read the full article on The Telegraph’s website.
Listen to the full show on the talkRADIO website.
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