Understanding effort regulation: Comparing 'Pomodoro' breaks and self-regulated breaks.
Felicitas BiwerWisnu WiradhanyMirjam G A Oude EgbrinkAnique B H de BruinPublished in: The British journal of educational psychology (2023)
Taking pre-determined, systematic breaks during a study session had mood benefits and appeared to have efficiency benefits (i.e., similar task completion in shorter time) over taking self-regulated breaks. Measuring how mental effort dynamically fluctuates over time and how effort spent on the learning task differs from effort spent on regulating break-taking requires further research.