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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The amount of time clinicians spend multitasking while using EHRs exceeds the amount of time clinicians are silent while using EHRs, a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine shows. The study ...

Peek through the windows of most tech companies and you’ll likely see hordes of multitasking millennials. Conventional wisdom has been that if you hire a bunch of millennials and set them to ...

Here’s a win for the chronic multitaskers. The best way to accomplish boring tasks is to do them in tandem with other low-attention tasks, according to a new study published in the Journal of Consumer ...

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.

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 ...

Not many people use their cell phone to buy movie tickets, watch videos or play games, but a significant number of Americans are interested in doing just that. That conclusion comes from a national ...