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December 8, 2016
Why multitasking is BAD for your brain: Neuroscientist warns it wrecks productivity and causes mistakes
- Earl Miller has advised that people should avoid multitasking altogether
- Switching between tasks take more mental energy to get back on track
- They advise removing distractions to overcome the brain’s thirst for new information and to block out time to focus on individual tasks
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Miller Lab
The Miller Lab uses experimental and theoretical approaches to study the neural basis of the high-level cognitive functions that underlie complex goal-directed behavior. ekmillerlab.mit.edu