{"id":123,"date":"2017-09-26T17:23:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T17:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/?p=123"},"modified":"2017-09-27T00:07:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T00:07:39","slug":"do-short-breaks-help-loooong-attention-in-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/2017\/09\/26\/do-short-breaks-help-loooong-attention-in-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Do short breaks help loooong attention in kids?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not everything we do around here is with preschoolers!\u00a0The Whitfield Lab is currently looking for 8- to 10-year-olds for studies this fall \u00a0investigating how taking a short break in the middle of a computer lesson helps children to continue paying attention until the end of the task. What kind of break? How much could it help? Answers coming soon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in participating, contact us at <a href=\"mailto:childresearch@scu.edu\">childresearch@scu.edu<\/a> \u00a0In the study, children will play some short memory games and a simple but challenging computer game over three-sessions &#8211; what they would often be doing at home anyway, but here we&#8217;ll turn it into science \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everything we do around here is with preschoolers!\u00a0The Whitfield Lab is currently looking for 8- to 10-year-olds for studies this fall \u00a0investigating how taking a short break in the middle of a computer lesson helps children to continue paying attention until the end of the task. What kind of break? How much could it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/2017\/09\/26\/do-short-breaks-help-loooong-attention-in-kids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Do short breaks help loooong attention in kids?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1632,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ongoing","category-participation","category-whitfield-recent"],"gutentor_comment":0,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"readlab","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/author\/readlab\/"},"qubely_comment":0,"qubely_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/category\/ongoing\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Current and Ongoing Studies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/category\/participation\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Getting Involved<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/category\/recent\/whitfield-recent\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Whitfield Lab<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Not everything we do around here is with preschoolers!\u00a0The Whitfield Lab is currently looking for 8- to 10-year-olds for studies this fall \u00a0investigating how taking a short break in the middle of a computer lesson helps children to continue paying attention until the end of the task. What kind of break? How much could it&hellip;","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/readlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}