Children face a deluge of electronic information from traditional television and computers to tablets, smartphones and video games, but prior studies examining the impact of electronic media on ...

A professor of developmental psychology explains why our ability to multitask changes as we age. We're all time-poor, so multitasking is seen as a necessity of modern living. We answer work emails ...

That constant tab-switching habit might be doing more harm to your brain than you think. We’ve all been there – responding to emails while joining a Zoom call, scrolling social media during a TV show, ...

For so long, the concept of juggling many tasks at once was a resume-worthy skill. In a way, the more balls you could keep in the air without seemingly faltering, the more adept you appeared to ...

You're reheating your coffee for the third time, half-listening to a conference call and taking inventory of your fridge to see what you can throw together for dinner. If this sounds familiar, you're ...

(CNN) — Our brains on multitasking aren’t nearly as good as we think they are. Let’s say you’re working on an activity over here, on the right side of the brain, and suddenly you’re trying to ...

Multitasking, particularly on tasks that require attentiveness, can lead to more errors and mistakes. Additionally, while it seems you’re getting more done while multitasking, you may be taking longer ...

Even though we think that multitasking makes us more high performing, it does the exact opposite. In the era of hustling and over working to reach our full potential, we tend to do multiple things all ...

At first I thought that multitasking was just a bogus concept, on the one hand an obvious truth and on the other an obvious falsehood. If multitasking meant reading a book while listening to music, of ...

Losing keys, forgetting passwords, and misplacing glasses can be frustrating. These events typically occur when the brain is overloaded. However, as our brains age memory lapses can become more ...

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