Over 97% of people objectively lose productivity when switching context, even when subjectively believing they are handling it well.

We live in a world filled with buzzing notifications, tab overload, and constant demands for attention. Multitasking feels like a survival skill-juggling emails during Zoom calls or scrolling through ...

According to Very Well Mind, the significant cognitive costs of multitasking, revealing that our brains are not designed to efficiently handle multiple tasks at once. While many people believe that ...

That constant tab-switching habit might be doing more harm to your brain than you think. We’ve all been there – responding to emails while joining a Zoom call, scrolling social media during a TV show, ...

Multitasking usually lowers productivity because most people are “task switching,” which creates a mental “switch cost” that slows processing and reduces accuracy. Switching between tasks strains ...

Cognitive control enables individuals to adapt their behaviour in response to changing environmental demands, playing a pivotal role in everyday functioning. Task switching, a core component of ...

GULFPORT, MS, UNITED STATES, April 22, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Recent discussions in clinical neuroscience have highlighted the role of the brain’s Default Mode ...

Male designer looking stressed while working on his computer in the office. [Courtesy/GettyImages] We live in a world of endless tabs, tweets, reels, and series. Each scroll feels rewarding, but your ...

Many people try to juggle a growing number of unfinished tasks by multi-tasking. As we discussed in a previous post, multi-tasking just makes you less productive because our brains do not work that ...

Valeria Vinogradova, a researcher at HSE University, together with British colleagues, studied how language proficiency affects cognitive processing in deaf adults. The study showed that higher ...