The article offered advice on “How to Multitask” with suggestions about giving your brain’s “multitasking hot spot” an appropriate workout. But more recently, challenges to the ethos of multitasking have begun to emerge. Numerous studies have shown the sometimes-fatal danger of using cell ...
The myth of multitasking is that it will make you more effective. In reality, remarkable focus is what makes the difference. (Image inspired byJessica Hagy.) While we’re on the subject, the wordmultitaskingfirst appeared in 1965 IBM report talking about the capabilities of its latest computer...
We believe we’re effective at multitasking when in reality we’re good at what researchers call “task-switching”. Earl Miller, a professor of neuroscience at MIT, says we simply can’t focus on more than one thing at a time. Period. But what we can do is shift our focus from ...
Perhaps the biggest problem of all, though, is that the majority of people doing the most media multitasking have a big-ass blind spot on just how much they suck at it. We believe we can e-mail and talk on the phone at the same time, with little or no degradation of either communica...
Article detailsBeginning of article People at the office like to think they are multitasking, but the fact is our brains are hard-wired to do one thing at time, said Clifton Gray, a senior development analyst at Oneok Corp. Gray addressed more than 200 accountants during the eighth- annual...
Nature volume 547, page 380 (2017)Cite this article 7227 Accesses 1952 Altmetric Metrics details The younger generation uses technology in the same ways as older people — and is no better at multitasking. This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options ...