"We studied people who were chronic multitaskers, and even when we did not ask them to do anything close to the level of multitasking they were doing, their cognitive processes were impaired. So basically, they are worse at most of the kinds of thinking not only required for multitasking but what we generally think of as involving deep thought," Nass told NPR in a 2009 interview...
Experts also suggest that the negative impact of chronic, heavy
multitasking might be the most detrimental to adolescent minds. At this
age, in particular, teen brains are busy forming important neural
connections.
Your brain on multitasking.
Does having the washer and dryer going while I'm cleaning the bathroom count as multi-tasking?
ReplyDeleteI doubt it:)
ReplyDeleteNow if you keep texting the whole time while simultaneously watching a YouTube vid, that's a different thing!
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