Breaking news and a shock to the researchers themselves, as it turns out. Originally, the team of researchers, whose findings are published in the Aug. 24 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were trying to find out what unusual cognitive gifts multitaskers possessed that made them so successful at multitasking. They’re … Continue reading “NYTimes.com: The Mediocre Multitasker”
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businessinsurance.com: Multitasking by drivers raises liability concerns
“A July Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study found text messaging is 23 times as dangerous, reaching for an electronic device is 6.7 times as dangerous, and dialing a cell phone is 5.9 times as dangerous as nondistracted driving.”
Multitaskers Aren’t Fooling Anyone: Stanford
“Attention multitaskers: You’re not fooling anyone. Although you look busy and involved in your work, a new study out of Stanford shows you aren’t really paying attention to any of your tasks. The Stanford researchers took 100 students through a series of tests. Half of the group claimed to be masters of the multitask. The … Continue reading “Multitaskers Aren’t Fooling Anyone: Stanford”
nydailynews: Stop the multitasking madness! Attempting to do it all can cause neurological damage: studies
“[Professor Russell Poldrack] found that the information the distracted participants studied actually traveled to a different part of the brain than the information the other volunteers studied. Ideally, new information ought to go to the hippocampus, which has the capacity to store and recall information. In distracted volunteers, however, the hippocampus was not fully activated.” … Continue reading “nydailynews: Stop the multitasking madness! Attempting to do it all can cause neurological damage: studies”
Slate:Seeking
“Actually all our electronic communication devices—e-mail, Facebook feeds, texts, Twitter—are feeding the same drive as our searches. Since we’re restless, easily bored creatures, our gadgets give us in abundance qualities the seeking/wanting system finds particularly exciting.” http://www.slate.com/id/2224932/pagenum/all/#p2
