All right, welcome to Hacking Your ADHD.

I'm your host William Kerr, and I have ADHD.

On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brick.

Today I'm joined by Sky Waterson for our research recap series.

In this series, we take a look at a single research paper and dive into

what the paper says, how it was conducted, and try and find any practical takeaways that we can

give you. In this episode, we're going to be discussing a paper called Brain Potentials,

revealed reduced attention and error processing during monetary go-no-go task in procrastination.

And this is a study that's looking at how procrastinators handle mistakes,

try to stay focused, especially when tests get harder and how those differences in rewards

and punishment affects those outcomes. So a lot there. And I'm going to tell you this paper has a ton

of acronyms. And so let's get into it. Yeah, a ton of acronyms. But we love our neuroscience papers because they show us how the brain is working differently.

And I got asked a question about that on a podcast yesterday, and it's nice to be able to say,

yes, this is happening, this is different.

Okay, so what they were looking at is they basically said, you know, procrastination,

which we all know, but just to give you a reminder, is a phenomenon which people voluntarily delay intended and necessary and or

personally important tasks, despite knowing that delaying will have more negative than positive

consequences. We've all done that many times probably today. And so this is a huge thing people talk about all the time.

So it's really important to get a sense of what's going on.

Yeah, there's, well, and especially going like, what are the outcomes of these procrastination things?

Like what causes, what's the outcome of procrastination beyond the

task not getting done yeah yeah exactly exactly so they were looking at um they basically

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