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Getty Images Our brains weren't built to multitask. MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller notes that our brains are "not wired to multitask well

Research conducted at Stanford University found that multitasking is less productive than doing a single thing at a time. The researchers found that people who are regularly bombarded with several streams of electronic information cannot pay attention, recall information, or switch from one job to another as well as those who complete one task at a time.

But what if some people have a special gift for multitasking? The Stanford researchers compared groups of people based on their tendency to multitask and their belief that it helps their performance. The frequent multitaskers performed worse because they had more trouble organizing their thoughts and filtering out irrelevant information, and they were slower at switching from one task to another.

Multitasking reduces your efficiency and performance because your brain can only focus on one thing at a time. When you try to do two things at once, your brain lacks the capacity to perform both tasks successfully. IQ drops of 15 points for multitasking men lowered their scores to the average range of an 8-year-old child.

Brain Damage From Multitasking It was long believed that cognitive impairment from multitasking was temporary, but new research suggests otherwise. Researchers at the University of Sussex in the UK compared the amount of time people spend on multiple devices such as texting while watching TV to MRI scans of their brains.

They found that high multitaskers had less brain density in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region responsible for empathy as well as cognitive and emotional control.

Multitasking in meetings and other social settings indicates low Self- and Social Awareness, two emotional intelligence EQ skills that are critical to success at work. If multitasking does indeed damage the anterior cingulate cortex a key brain region for EQ as current research suggests, it will lower your EQ in the process.

Travis Bradberry is the award-winning co-author of the 1 bestselling book, Emotional Intelligence 2. His bestselling books have been translated into 25 languages and are available in more than countries.More recently, the incorporation of technology into psychology has made it possible to supplement therapeutic techniques with computer-based counseling, test brain activity, and accurately record and analyze complex data – and that’s not even the beginnings of its potential influence on the field.

Multitasking also taxes the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain that integrates information.

Your capacity for problem-solving decreases with the number of tasks you try to perform at the same time. Oct 08,  · Multitasking reduces your efficiency and performance because your brain can only focus on one thing at a time.

When you try to do two things at once, your brain . Film C. Meadow Rhodes, Author. How Technology Has Affected Middle Schoolers, all while being anonymous. Cyberbullying is a major issue among preteens. Discussion of "Negative Effects of Technology and Preteens" Add your voice to this discussion.

To illustrate that many claims about technology in education are in fact spurious, we will focus in this article on five specific myths and present the research findings that dispel them.

Myth 1: New technology is causing a revolution in education. Obviously, technology has had a profound impact on what it means to be social.

Society is likely on the cusp of a social revolution, during which it will be important to redefine socially appropriate and acceptable behaviors (with regard to digital or virtual interaction).