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multitasking

Do Twitter And TV Shrink Your Brain?

Media multitasking, watching TV while using Twitter on a phone, for example, is becoming extremely common. A new study finds, however, that these multiple screen users have less gray matter in a specific area of the brain.

Video Game Improves Multitasking Skills

Does multitasking seem to be getting tougher for you as the years pass? In fact, that's quite normal. By the time you are 40, multitasking is nearly twice as challenging as when you were 20. The good news is that playing a video game has…

Training Your Brain to Multitask

It's Monday, your inbox is full of unanswered emails, you desk is piled high with paper, and you've got a couple of important project deadlines looming. There's one bright spot: although past research has indicated that people's ability to…