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. 2014 Mar 27;5:268. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00268

Table 5.

Means (and standard deviations) as a function of a pending goal related to interesting, task-irrelevant information and task difficulty (Experiment 2).

Task difficulty Pending goal
Without With
Easy Difficult Easy Difficult
Problem-solving performance in % correct 77.78 (11.03) 61.66 (19.64) 60.78 (21.87) 59.91 (20.67)
Time on task-relevant information in seconds 1469.12 (633.70) 1226.06 (379.85) 950.24 (429.49) 1211.76 (916.13)
Time on task-irrelevant information in seconds 2.18 (4.59) 7.06 (14.35) 105.29 (228.76) 34.47 (71.80)