According to Very Well Mind, the significant cognitive costs of multitasking, revealing that our brains are not designed to efficiently handle multiple tasks at once. While many people believe that ...

You’re reheating your coffee for the third time, half-listening to a conference call and taking inventory of your fridge to see what you can throw together for dinner. If this sounds familiar, you’re ...

It doesn't quite read your mind, but the experimental Brainput device tracks brain activity to recognize when users are multitasking to offload work. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

The modern world celebrates the multitasker. We praise those who can answer emails while on conference calls, scroll social media during TV shows, and text while walking. But behind this apparent ...

“It was surprising that for some of the subjects it was easier for them to do dual-tasking – do more than one task – compared to single-tasking – doing each task separately.” Walking while engaging in ...

(CNN) — Our brains on multitasking aren’t nearly as good as we think they are. Let’s say you’re working on an activity over here, on the right side of the brain, and suddenly you’re trying to ...

To be able to multitask is a misnomer. New research around the thinking systems of the brain is helping us understand that most of us are temporarily switching between separate tasks, completing or ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The information age is indeed upon us. With the explosion of the Internet and burgeoning field of cell phones ...

The question is, is there hope for us monotaskers? Should monotaskers like me strive for less inept sessions of multitasking, or should we just give it up completely? For my book, Brain Trust, I posed ...

Researchers at the University of Rochester found that some young people do well on cognitive tasks while walking, as the brain is changing resources to perform better. The team used a Mobile ...