The Nuance

How Short Information Breaks Help Your Brain

New research on ‘cognitive replay’ underscores the problem of information overload

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
4 min readFeb 16, 2022
Photo by Ben Tofan on Unsplash

People in the radio business call them “buttons.” They’re those short music clips you hear in between news segments on NPR and other stations.

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a long-time contributor at TIME and other media orgs. I write mostly about health. I grew up in Michigan, but these days I live in southwest Germany.