More evidence against multitasking
Here’s some more evidence to add to previous studies showing that multitasking is not so efficient after all. eWeek reports:
Our increasingly media- and technology-saturated world is leading people to a state of constant multitasking that puts the human cognition system in a disruptive state. So claims an article published in the latest edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the official journal of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
The report—“Cognitive Control in Media Multitaskers,” written by Stanford University’s Eyal Ophira, Clifford Nass and Anthony D. Wagner—claims heavy media multitaskers performed worse on a test of task-switching ability than a group of users who multitasked lightly.
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