You can tell the scientific reason or just share your experience with the subject it’s really fun to read always.

I come up with pretty clever names and ideas when programming but if someone is watching best I can do is muscle memory.

If I wrote an essay while someone else is watching it would look like a middle-schooler wrote it.

Same situation when I am in an exam room with 5 other people is completely fine.

Hell I used to work at a warehouse but I attempted to tape a box the sticky part up one time because the supervisor is watching.

He just looked tired after seeing tip of the tape get dragged across a box like some cat toy.

Is it magic?

  • rickdg@lemmy.world
    8·
    7 days ago

    So what’s happening in the brain of people who perform well in these circumstances? 🤔

    • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 day ago

      Two likely possibilities:

      • They’re tuning out the social aspects of the situation enough that the DMN can disengage, or
      • They’re so habituated to the task that they no longer need to consciously think about it (what OP calls “muscle memory”).

      Or in theory, they might have learned the skill in such a way that the DMN can do it without the FPN—like if they treat it as a form of storytelling.