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- Neuroscientists say multitasking literally drains energy reserves of your brain http://qz.com/722661/neuroscientists-say-multitasking-literally-drains-the-energy-reserves-of-your-brain/ 2 comments
- Multitasking: Study examines limits imposed by brain structure http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126018694 8 comments
- Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/08/multitasking/ 3 comments
- Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-successful-people-dont-multitask-dr-travis-bradberry/ 293 comments
- Bottlenecks in the brain limit our ability to multitask http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/bottlenecks-in-the-brain-limit-our-ability-to-multitask.ars 15 comments science
- Bottlenecks in the brain limit our ability to multitask http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/08/bottlenecks-in-the-brain-limit-our-ability-to-multitask.ars?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28ars+technica+-+featured+content%29&utm_content=google+feedfetcher 33 comments cogsci
- The brain’s three layers of working memory allow you to multitask http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-brain-has-three-layers-of-working-memory-allowing-for-multitasking 15 comments cogsci
- Multitasking Damages Your Brain And Career, New Studies Suggest [which explains pointy-hair boss?] http://www.forbes.com/sites/travisbradberry/2014/10/08/multitasking-damages-your-brain-and-career-new-studies-suggest/ 3 comments programming
- Brain's limitations on multitasking: It sounds so simple: draw a circle with one hand, and a square with the other. http://whyfiles.org/shorties/220square_circle/ 3 comments science
- Making a Game Out of Improving the 'Sticky' Brain. UCSF neuroscientists have found that by training on attention tests, people young and old can improve brain performance and multitasking skills http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/11/13048/making-game-out-improving-sticky-brain 4 comments science
- Top Multitaskers Help Explain How Brain Juggles Thoughts: The discovery of multitasking masterminds is revealing how the brain works when it strives to do several things at once http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=supertaskers-and-the-multitasking-brain 6 comments cogsci
- Your eyes are the key to distracted driving, not your brain: Relying on peripheral vision is the problem, not the cognitive load of multitasking https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/07/look-where-youre-going-is-the-key-to-distracted-driving/ 4 comments science
- Your eyes are the key to distracted driving, not your brain: Relying on peripheral vision is the problem, not the cognitive load of multitasking https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/07/look-where-youre-going-is-the-key-to-distracted-driving/ 20 comments science
- No matter how much time you've spent training your brain to multitask by playing "Call of Duty," you're probably no better at talking on the phone while driving than anybody else http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120613/10282/video-games-talking-driving.htm 5 comments science
- Playing 'World of Warcraft' Boosts Spatial Ability and Focus in Adults -- The game improves cognitive functioning in older players because it requires multitasking and extensive use of brain-based skills. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/02/playing-world-of-warcraft-boosts-spatial-ability-and-focus-in-adults/253534/ 524 comments science
- Reindeer can multitask and chew while they sleep, new study shows. The animals combine sleeping and digesting, researchers found after extracting reindeer brain activity data from four adult female reindeer, using non-invasive electrodes stuck to their scalps. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/22/reindeer-can-multitask-and-chew-while-they-sleep-study-shows 17 comments science
- A University of California, Irvine-led study has found that online brain game exercises can enable people in their 70s and even 80s to multitask cognitively as well as individuals 50 years their junior https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-08/uoc--obg081919.php 59 comments science
- Pigeons better at multitasking than humans. Unlike hitherto assumed, cognitive ability does not necessary require a complex mammalian cerebral cortex. A small bird brain is fully sufficient. http://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2017-09-26-behavioural-science-pigeons-better-multitasking-humans 10 comments science
- A new technique has drawn wiring diagrams of the brains of the two sexes. The cross-talk in women helps explain their better memories and multitask. In men within-hemisphere links let them focus on things that do not need complex inputs from both hemispheres. https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21591157-new-technique-has-drawn-wiring-diagrams-brains-two-sexes?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/pe/viveladifference 10 comments science
- Video Games Boost Brain Power, Multitasking Skills. Parents, the next time you fret that your child is wasting too much time playing video games, consider new research suggesting that video gaming may have real-world benefits for your child's developing brain. http://www.npr.org/2010/12/20/132077565/video-games-boost-brain-power-multitasking-skills 9 comments science