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

["Bruce Robinson" <bruce@brucerob.eu>]

I'm suspicious of any theory based on tests with 100 students but this makes 
me wonder what theories there are about the human attention span (mine is 
rather short, I think because I keep switching between tasks rather like a 
computer's operating system).

Any suggestions?

Bruce R

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duvall, Emily" <emily@uidaho.edu>
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:06 PM
Subject: [xmca] FW: 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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