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

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

Rather funny when you're reading that article, and on your 
screen there is a picture to enlarge, a free trial of a 
"brain game", 3 ads and innumerable links to other aricles, 
 with links to email the article, blog, etc etc. ...

:)

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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