The Autumn of the Multitaskers
I’m a chronic multitasker, but maybe after reading this article I’ll be rethinking my incessant context-switching habit—especially after reading passages like this one:
Multitasking messes with the brain in several ways. At the most basic level, the mental balancing acts that it requires—the constant switching and pivoting—energize regions of the brain that specialize in visual processing and physical coordination and simultaneously appear to shortchange some of the higher areas related to memory and learning.
Yikes. (via rands)
