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

[Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Ugh-- what was that you all wrote? I was smelling the roses and forgot it.
mike

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Duvall, Emily <emily@uidaho.edu> wrote:

> I am passing along this comment from one of my computational
> neuroscience colleagues... makes things a little more interesting to
> think about:
>
> ~em
>
>
>
>
>  Interesting article. My first impression is that simultaneous-tasking
> probably
> isn't the same as multi-tasking. It isn't to a computer at any rate,
> which is where
> this terminology comes from. :)  I wonder if there's a minimum "time
> slice"
> per task required in order to be able to efficiently multi-task? I've
> known some folks
> who were formidable multitaskers and were quite effective at what they
> did. But
> none of them were simultaneous-taskers. :)
>
>
> At 08:11 AM 8/26/2009, you wrote:
>
>
>
> As you head into the school year, this might be an interesting study to
> share with students and parents. It is only one study, but quite
> interesting.
> I guess I'd better turn my t.v., radio, phone, etc off while I type...
> ~em
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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