A cluttered desk might not feel like a big deal, but some research suggests competing objects in your visual field suppress activity in the visual cortex, making it harder to focus

At university my desk during exam time was a mess. Coffee cups colonised the corners, highlighters lay around with no caps, three different revision notebooks sat open at three different chapters, and photocopied past papers. I worked in the middle of all of it, and at the time I genuinely didn’t think this was a [...] The post A cluttered desk might not feel like a big deal, but some research suggests competing objects in your visual field suppress activity in the visual cortex, making it harde