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Need Mental Break? Avoid Your Cellphone, RutgersUniversity Researchers Say
August 22, 2019
NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, Aug. 22 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Rutgers University issued the following news:

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- Using a cellphone during breaks led to mental depletion, poorer performance in a recent study

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Using a cellphone to take a break during mentally challenging tasks does not allow the brain to recharge effectively and may result in poorer performance, Rutgers researchers found.

The experiment, published in the Journal . . .

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