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Re: [xmca] FW: ScienceDaily: Media Multitaskers Pay Mental Price, Study Shows



This is brilliant. Thanks for my biggest laugh of the day. :)
Diane Hodges

> Oh this study is obviously flawed in some fundamental aspect. I'm very
> comfortable with multitasking. I easily follow newsfeeds while working
> and only pick up what is really essential. At the same time, I can still
> communicate with colleag - oooh shiny! brb


>
> On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 08:06 -0700, Duvall, Emily wrote:
>> 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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