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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Working mothers spend significantly more time multitasking when they are at home than their counterparts, working dads. That's according to a new study published in this month's journal The American ...

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 ...