“Mummy brain”, which is thought to leave new mothers feeling forgetful and less able to pay attention to things.
That forgetfulness and shorter attention span mothers with newborns experience is a temporary phenomenon. — AFP
Their reaction times were compared for a computer test where they had to press a button that corresponded to the location of an arrow on the screen. “For this particular study, we recruited mums who were past that first year postpartum because we wanted to see the long-term effects of maternity,” says researcher Valerie Tucker Miller.
She explains: “In most studies, however, attention and memory tests are given to mothers very early postpartum. There are few issues with that. “This means that women have accurate awareness of their cognitive state and that their concerns regarding their perceived attentional functioning should be taken seriously,” says co-author Amanda Veile.
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