ArticleScientific reports2022
Media-multitasking and cognitive control across the lifespan.
Article in Scientific reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Executive Functioning as Mediator in the Longitudinal Relationship Between Media Multitasking and Divergent Thinking in Adolescents.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- The Role of Social Media in Mitigating the Long-Term Impact of Social Isolation on Mental and Cognitive Health in Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The HUNT Study.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2025Observational
- Changed detection: No relationship between working memory and media usage in Covid-era and contemporary young adults.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Informant Characteristics Influence Reports of Participant Functioning and their Associations with Neuropsychological Performance in Non-Hispanic Black Adults.Archives of clinical neuropsychology : the official journal of the National Academy of Neuropsychologists · 2023Observational
- Media Multitasking in Mixed Reality Learning Situations: What Determines Its Effectiveness?Psychology in Russia : state of the art · 2023Article
- Unravelling the link between media multitasking and attention across three samples.Technology, mind, and behavior · 2023Article
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Abstract
The exponential rise in technology use over the past decade, and particularly during the COIVD-19 pandemic, has been accompanied by growing concern regarding the consequences of this technology use for our cognition. Previous studies on the influence of technology-multitasking (the use of two or more technologies simultaneously) on cognitive performance have provided mixed results. However, these past studies have generally ignored the considerable developmental trajectories that cognitive abilities undergo across the lifespan. In a large community-based science project we investigated the relationship between media-multitasking and cognitive flexibility (multitasking ability) in participants aged 7-70 years. Higher levels of every-day technology multitasking were associated with higher levels of multitasking performance across an age range in which multitasking ability undergoes developmental change. These findings suggest that age is an important moderator of the relationship between technology use and cognition.
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