(Medical Xpress) -- Historically, perceptual and response rates when multitasking have been interpreted as being limited by independent bottlenecks. While a more recent view suggests that a common bottleneck might be the ...
The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but they can also provide insightful glimpses into memory. Stanford scientists are now able to predict whether an individual will remember or forget based on their neural activity ...
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(Medical Xpress)—A pair of researchers with the University of Queensland has found via a study that involved testing volunteers, that it is possible to teach the brain to be better at multitasking—at least in one instance. ...
Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have pinpointed a reason older adults have a harder time multitasking than younger adults: they have more difficulty switching between tasks at the level of brain ...
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New research from University of Utah psychology researchers is helping prove what American authors John Muir and Henry David Thoreau tried to teach more than 150 years ago: Time spent in nature is good for the heart and soul.
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Multitasking makes adolescents feel both more positively and more negatively about the main task they're trying to accomplish, a new study finds.
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The smartphones that are now ubiquitous were just gaining popularity when Anthony Wagner became interested in the research of his Stanford colleague, Clifford Nass, on the effects of media multitasking and attention. Though ...
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People who often mix their media consumption—texting while watching TV, or listening to music while reading—are not known for being able to hold their attention on one task. But sharpening their focus may be as simple ...
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Simultaneously using mobile phones, laptops and other media devices could be changing the structure of our brains, according to new University of Sussex research.
Sep 24, 2014
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The area of the brain involved in multitasking and ways to train it have been identified by a research team at the IUGM Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal and the University of Montreal.
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