In partnership with Toyota Research Institute, UW researchers are exploring how modern touch screens in cars affect driving ...

Recently, a scientific research study was published in a reputable medical journal showing that multitasking can be a significant challenge. When people talk about multitasking, they usually focus on ...

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 ...

Discover top methods to increase concentration during study sessions. Find out how a change in your lifestyle, mindfulness, and AI tools can help you focus more.

It may feel like productivity, but research shows that multitasking often leads to slower performance and more errors.

WASHINGTON – Your parents were right: Don’t study with the TV on. Multitasking may be a necessity in today’s fast-paced world, but new research shows distractions affect the way people learn, making ...

Children face a deluge of electronic information from traditional television and computers to tablets, smartphones and video games, but prior studies examining the impact of electronic media on ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Men may be helping more in the home but working women still do more multitasking in U.S. families than their partners and are finding it stressful, according to a new study.

It is not a myth - women really are better than men at multitasking, at least in certain cases, a study says. Men were slower and less organised than women when switching rapidly between tasks in ...

Some people, as the phrase goes, are so bad at multitasking that they "can't even walk and chew gum at the same time." The same cannot be said of reindeer, however, with a new study suggesting that ...

Two tasks using the same senses are harder than others, research finds. Aug. 13, 2012 — -- We humans like to think we're good at using our nimble brains to deal with two challenges at once. But ...