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Can We Predict Your Capacity To Focus? With Monica Rosenberg

Big Brains

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Do Multitasking Trainings Really Benefit Our Attention?

When we try and multitask, what our brains are doing are just switching between the tasks. Every time we switch from one task to another, we have a little bit of a cost in terms of efficiency. We would actually get more done and be more efficient if we spent a longer amount of time on each task separately. This year Rosenberg receives a prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship.

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