Categories: CommunicationNeurosciencePsychology

Cognitive control in media multitaskers

E. Ophir, C. Nass, A. D. Wagner

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903620106

Journal-article published August 2009 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences volume 106 issue 37 on page 15583-15587
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Keywords: #attention  #cognition   #working memory  Edit keywords

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Diane J 20.Aug.2017

The article argues that people who heavily multitask across different media channels process information differently than those who don't. They are less capable of filtering multiple stimuli and become distracted easier, they struggle when it comes to task-switching, lastly they have a difficult time ignoring irrelevant representations in memory. But in our daily life, when we watch tv or listen to music while doing homework we process information poorly compared to focusing on the study.

A very relevant paper. It would be interesting to see how reversible that poor information processing is in HMM - or how permanent. Has anyone found an article that explores this question?

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