From checking emails while on a call to cooking dinner and helping with homework, we all operate through multitasking. But new research suggests that our ability to juggle multiple tasks isn't a ...

Correction: In the original version of this online headline, multitasking was misspelled. Browsing Facebook during lecture. Writing a paper while listening to music. Texting during dinner.

Training increases brain processing speed and improves our ability to multitask, new research indicates. Training increases brain processing speed and improves our ability to multitask, new research ...

Human factors/ergonomics researchers have long studied the connection between cognitive function and the ability to perform well on multiple simultaneous tasks, and recently a group of neuroergonomics ...

A brain that trains can stay in the fast lane. That's the message of a study showing that playing a brain training video game for a month can rejuvenate the multitasking abilities of people in their ...

People who believe they can multitask effectively — say, talk on a cell phone while driving — are the least likely to be able to do so. You’re probably wrong. According to a new study, people who ...

People who multitask all the time may be the worst at doing two things at once, new research suggests. The findings, based on performances and self-evaluations by about 275 undergraduate students, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it. Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally saw it ...

The people who multitask the most are the ones who are worst at it. That is the surprising conclusion of researchers at Stanford University, who found multitaskers are more easily distracted and less ...

Experiments involving a custom-designed 3-dimensional video game demonstrate that training using this approach can assess cognitive abilities across the lifespan, evaluate underlying neural mechanisms ...

Stop for a minute and think back to the last time you were having a conversation with someone in person. Chances are they were also looking at their phone or their laptop, at least periodically. How ...