Ear Plugs to Lasers - The Science of Concentration - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
"She recommends starting your work day concentrating on your most important task for 90 minutes. At that point your prefrontal cortex probably needs a rest, and you can answer e-mail, return phone calls and sip caffeine (which does help attention) before focusing again. But until that first break, don’t get distracted by anything else, because it can take the brain 20 minutes to do the equivalent of rebooting after an interruption." - Jared Jacobs
I wonder what it does with the 20 minutes. - j1m