These findings might explain why some people are heavy Multitaskers.
Women aren't better Multitaskers than men- we're just doing more work.
Women aren't better Multitaskers than men- they're just doing more work.
Even more depressing: people who believe themselves to be master Multitaskers are seriously overestimating their capabilities.
Researchers found that on these tests(and others)
the ability to sustain attention was poorer for heavy Multitaskers.
Results showed that heavy media Multitaskers are more susceptible to interference from irrelevant environmental stimuli
and from irrelevant representations in memory.
Research suggests that light media Multitaskers are more likely to miss helpful
information that isn't related to the task they're currently performing.
From the sheer number of ideas they produced to the perceived
novelty of the ideas(as assessed by independent judges), the Multitaskers performed better.
Brain scans of the participants also showed that an area of the brain known as the anterior
cingulate cortex is smaller in heavy Multitaskers.
Heavy Multitaskers- those who multitask often and feel it boosts their performance-
were actually worse at multitasking than those who like to do single tasks at a time.
Heavy Multitaskers- those who multitask a lot and feel that it boosts their performance-
were actually worse at multitasking than those who like to do a single thing at a time.