SynthesisAttention, perception & psychophysics2017
Cognitive control in media multitaskers: Two replication studies and a meta-Analysis.
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- Media Multitasking: A Bibliometric Approach and Literature Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Media Multitasking and Cognitive Abilities: A Multi-Domain Assessment of Attention, Working Memory, Convergent Associative Thinking, and Fluid Reasoning.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- An effort recalibration framework for digital media use and cognition.Nature human behaviour · 2026Review
- Media multitasking and the aesthetic brain: neural sensitivity to abstraction in the digital age.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
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- Attention in our digital ecosystem: The five interactive components that drive media multitasking.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- Investigating the relationship between media multitasking and executive function within a military population.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2025Article
- "Phone in the Room, Mind on the Roam": Investigating the Impact of Mobile Phone Presence on Distraction.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Instructional design complexity and pop-up notification interference: effects on attention allocation and information retention in virtual classrooms.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The impact of relevant versus irrelevant media multitasking on academic performance during online learning: a serial of mediating models.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- High and Low Media Multitaskers Differ on Cued But Not Voluntary Task Switching.Experimental psychology · 2025Article
- How the Effect of Virtual Reality on Cognitive Functioning Is Modulated by Gender Differences.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Differences between subclinical attention-deficit/hyperactivity and autistic traits in default mode, salience, and frontoparietal network connectivities in young adult Japanese.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Unravelling the link between media multitasking and attention across three samples.Technology, mind, and behavior · 2023Article
- Media-multitasking and cognitive control across the lifespan.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Media multitasking, depression, and anxiety of college students: Serial mediating effects of attention control and negative information attentional bias.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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- Partitioning switch costs when investigating task switching in relation to media multitasking.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
- A Review of Evidence on the Role of Digital Technology in Shaping Attention and Cognitive Control in Children.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- The Effects of Using a Nature-Sound Mobile Application on Psychological Well-Being and Cognitive Performance Among University Students.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Ophir, Nass, and Wagner (2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(37), 15583-15587) found that people with high scores on the media-use questionnaire-a questionnaire that measures the proportion of media-usage time during which one uses more than one medium at the same time-show impaired performance on various tests of distractor filtering. Subsequent studies, however, did not all show this association between media multitasking and distractibility, thus casting doubt on the reliability of the initial findings. Here, we report the results of two replication studies and a meta-analysis that included the results from all published studies into the relationship between distractor filtering and media multitasking. Our replication studies included a total of 14 tests that had an average replication power of 0.81. Of these 14 tests, only five yielded a statistically significant effect in the direction of increased distractibility for people with higher scores on the media-use questionnaire, and only two of these effects held in a more conservative Bayesian analysis. Supplementing these outcomes, our meta-analysis on a total of 39 effect sizes yielded a weak but significant association between media multitasking and distractibility that turned nonsignificant after correction for small-study effects. Taken together, these findings lead us to question the existence of an association between media multitasking and distractibility in laboratory tasks of information processing.
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