Cognitive control in media multitaskers Export

@article{citeulike:5637505, abstract = {10.1073/pnas.0903620106 Chronic media multitasking is quickly becoming ubiquitous, although processing multiple incoming streams of information is considered a challenge for human cognition. A series of experiments addressed whether there are systematic differences in information processing styles between chronically heavy and light media multitaskers. A trait media multitasking index was developed to identify groups of heavy and light media multitaskers. These two groups were then compared along established cognitive control dimensions. Results showed that heavy media multitaskers are more susceptible to interference from irrelevant environmental stimuli and from irrelevant representations in memory. This led to the surprising result that heavy media multitaskers performed worse on a test of task-switching ability, likely due to reduced ability to filter out interference from the irrelevant task set. These results demonstrate that media multitasking, a rapidly growing societal trend, is associated with a distinct approach to fundamental information processing.}, author = {Ophir, Eyal and Nass, Clifford and Wagner, Anthony D.}, citeulike-article-id = {5637505}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903620106}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/08/21/0903620106.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/08/21/0903620106.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/106/37/15583}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19706386}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19706386}, day = {15}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.0903620106}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences}, keywords = {multitasking}, month = {September}, number = {37}, pages = {15583--15587}, posted-at = {2009-09-07 15:54:33}, priority = {4}, title = {Cognitive control in media multitaskers}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903620106}, volume = {106}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5637505 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5637505 N2 - 10.1073/pnas.0903620106 Chronic media multitasking is quickly becoming ubiquitous, although processing multiple incoming streams of information is considered a challenge for human cognition. A series of experiments addressed whether there are systematic differences in information processing styles between chronically heavy and light media multitaskers. A trait media multitasking index was developed to identify groups of heavy and light media multitaskers. These two groups were then compared along established cognitive control dimensions. Results showed that heavy media multitaskers are more susceptible to interference from irrelevant environmental stimuli and from irrelevant representations in memory. This led to the surprising result that heavy media multitaskers performed worse on a test of task-switching ability, likely due to reduced ability to filter out interference from the irrelevant task set. These results demonstrate that media multitasking, a rapidly growing societal trend, is associated with a distinct approach to fundamental information processing. IS - 37 JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences EP - 15587 TI - Cognitive control in media multitaskers VL - 106 SP - 15583 KW - multitasking AU - Ophir, Eyal AU - Nass, Clifford AU - Wagner, Anthony PY - 2009/09/15/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0903620106 ER -