Feel drained after a year of Zoom meetings? There's brain science behind that fatigue
ABCAs you hit the red 'leave' button on your last video conference call of 2020 and shut your laptop, you rub your eyes and slump back in your chair. Video calls have only appeared recently in human history, and while our brain has evolved over the millennia to be pretty great at face-to-face communication, it's less deft at processing virtual chats. "We're dealing with a speech signal that's degraded relative to face-to-face speech, even with a good internet connection, so the cognitive load required to process or decode it is greater." Loading YouTube content "When talking to someone in a noisy cafe, we can rely on vision to help decode speech," Professor Smith says. And while it sounds incredibly obvious, Professor Smith suspects "the single biggest thing is to try and schedule your meetings so they're not back to back and you actually have some recovery time".
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