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Kyle Murley

The Myth of Multitasking - Christine Rosen » The New Atlantis || SPRING 2008 - 0 views

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multitasking article attention psychology learning

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  • singular focus was not merely a practical way to structure one’s time; it was a mark of intelligence
  • multitasking
  • parallel processing abilities of computers, multitasking is now shorthand for the human attempt to do simultaneously as many things as possible, as quickly as possible, preferably marshalling the power of as many technologies as possible
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  • brain’s “multitasking hot spot
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      gosh this is great
  • 2005, the BBC reported on a research study, funded by Hewlett-Packard and conducted by the Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London
  • 2007 was Linda Stone’s notion of “continuous partial attention,
  • multitasking a “mythical activity in which people believe they can perform two or more tasks simultaneously.”
  • ADT is “purely a response to the hyperkinetic environment in which we live,”
  • “Attention Deficit Trait,”
  • workers took an average of twenty-five minutes to recover from interruptions such as phone calls or answering e-mail and return to their original task
  • “task-switching”—that is, multitasking behavior—the flow of blood increases to a region of the frontal cortex called Brodmann area 10
  • the last part of the brain to evolve, the most mysterious and exciting part
  • rather than a bottleneck in the brain, a process of “adaptive executive control” takes place, which “schedules task processes appropriately to obey instructions about their relative priorities and serial order,
  • with training, the brain can learn to task-switch more effectively
  • people who are not distracted show activity in the hippocampus, a region involved in storing and recalling information
  • people who are distracted or multitasking show activity in the striatum, a region of the brain involved in learning new skills
  • Media multitasking—that is, the simultaneous use of several different media, such as television, the Internet, video games, text messages, telephones, and e-mail—is clearly on the rise,
  • letters he wrote to his so
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    This article appears in the SPRING 2008 issue of The New Atlantis This article appears in the SPRING 2008 issue of The New Atlantis
Kyle Murley

Training improves multitasking performance by increasing the speed of information proce... - 0 views

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...19607798

multitasking brain training

shared by Kyle Murley on 08 Sep 09 - No Cached
  • Training improves multitasking performance by increasing the speed of information processing in human prefrontal cortex.
  • task performance deteriorates when we attempt to undertake two or more tasks simultaneously
  • extensive training can greatly reduce such multitasking costs
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  • by increasing the speed of information processing in this brain region, thereby allowing multiple tasks to be processed in rapid succession
  • prefrontal cortex given this brain region's purported role in limiting multitasking performance
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    Training improves multitasking performance by increasing the speed of information processing in human prefrontal cortex.
Kyle Murley

Figaro! Figaro! Training the Multitasking Brain - TierneyLab Blog - NYTimes.com - 0 views

tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/...raining-the-multitasking-brain

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  • conductors have to be able to hear a bad note, then identify who did it, perhaps they rewire their brains to combine their visual and auditory senses. A
  • there’s the possibility that everyone could train themselves to do more than one thing at once
Marie Garcia

Managing with the Brain in Mind - 0 views

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    SCARF by Jeffrey Schwartz and David Rock
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