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[xmca] FW: ScienceDaily: Media Multitaskers Pay Mental Price, Study Shows
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:06:06 -0700
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- Thread-topic: ScienceDaily: Media Multitaskers Pay Mental Price, Study Shows
On the heels of the Stroop test and issues of attention and cognitive
control, the following study just came out.
Media Multitaskers Pay Mental Price, Study Shows
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090825113133.htm
Attention, multitaskers (if you can pay attention, that is): Your brain
may be in trouble. People who are regularly bombarded with several
streams of electronic information do not pay attention, control their
memory or switch from one job to another as well as those who prefer to
complete one task at a time, researchers have found.
~em
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