Juggling tasks can feel overwhelming, especially when your brain seems to rebel against the idea of switching from one thing ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. We have been told that multitasking is good for work productivity, but we intuitively know constant multitasking makes us stressed out.

Switching between applications that have been loaded in memory (are currently open). It generally refers to a user purposely jumping from one application to another, for example, by pressing Alt-Tab ...

Does this describe you? While you are on a teleconference call you are writing up your quarterly report, checking your email, and texting your friend about where you are meeting for lunch. You would ...

Cognitive control enables individuals to adapt their behaviour in response to changing environmental demands, playing a pivotal role in everyday functioning. Task switching, a core component of ...

Task switching should be the cornerstone of a modern UI, not something that is slapped on top of it as an afterthought. For me, most of the current UI´s handle it as an afterthought, including iOS, ...

Scientists are using supercomputers and data from the game Ebb and Flow to train deep learning models that mimic the human behavior of “task-switching,” shifting attention from one task to another.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 97, No. 24 (Nov. 21, 2000), pp. 13448-13453 (6 pages) Human ability to switch from one cognitive task to another ...

What goals have you set for 2026? The energy and optimism of the new year can make it easier to dive into a new hobby, ...