Research on Multitasking

Those who multitask a lot were compared to those who multitask much less.

In their                                                      multitaskers are

ability to ignore irrelevant information         much worse

ability to organize information                    worse

memory                                                    equal

ability to switch tasks rapidly                     worse        [A surprise! That's what they do a lot and they were worse at it!]

ability to focus on a task                            worse
                                        

    The research did not find anything multitaskers are better at.

AP. Wednesday, August 26, 2009. Research conduced at Stanford University.
Published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, August 25, 2009.