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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Public Health

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  • The COVID-19 pandemic heightened health and financial worries globally.
  • Poverty-related concerns are known to impair cognitive control.
  • Potential impact of COVID-19 concerns on sustained attention and task performance was unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the correlation between COVID-19 concerns and sustained attention in young adults.
  • To determine if pandemic-related worries degrade performance on cognitive tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Two pre-registered experiments involving young adults.
  • Participants completed surveys on COVID-19 concerns.
  • Performance assessed using a continuous performance task (CPT) measuring sustained attention.

Main Results:

  • No significant correlation found between COVID-19 concerns and CPT performance in either experiment.
  • Experiment 2 showed that task-unrelated thoughts negatively impacted CPT performance.
  • Individual differences in attention were observed, but not linked to pandemic worries.

Conclusions:

  • Young adults can maintain sustained attention despite COVID-19 concerns.
  • Concerns about the pandemic may be held latently, with minimal impact on demanding cognitive tasks.
  • Task-unrelated thoughts, rather than pandemic worries, were associated with poorer attention performance.