Excerpt: Scientists say juggling e-mail, phone calls and other incoming information can change how people think and behave. They say our ability to focus is being undermined by bursts of information.

These play to a primitive impulse to respond to immediate opportunities and threats. The stimulation provokes excitement — a dopamine squirt — that researchers say can be addictive. In its absence, people feel bored...

While many people say multitasking makes them more productive, research shows otherwise. Heavy multitaskers actually have more trouble focusing and shutting out irrelevant information, scientists say, and they experience more stress.

And scientists are discovering that even after the multitasking ends, fractured thinking and lack of focus persist. In other words, this is also your brain off computers.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/technolo...=me&ref=general


^^Be sure to take the multitasking test. I did ok with multiple distractions, extremely well with only 2

 

I'll brb, i have 6 other windows open..

 

That article was 100% on point.

 

i scored 100% on the test, does that mean i'm not easily distracted?

 

TL,DR link to the multitask test?

 

100% here

 

while we're on the subject, this is a good read:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archiv...us-stupid/6868/

 

100%, does listening to music while taking the test count as an additional distraction? haha

 

very interesting I will have to take the test later Im busy with music, homework, internet, and catching up with friends

 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06...?ref=technology