Multitasking tends to get a bad rap, especially among cognitive psychologists and behavioral scientists.

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Melinda French Gates said she tends to focus on one task at a time to avoid mistakes. She said multitasking is a myth and led to errors in her career. During her career at Microsoft, multitasking was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Does multitasking help us be more productive, or is it just stressing us out? Here's what experts say. (Getty Creative) (10'000 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Ten months into this pandemic and many students have spent most, if not all, of the time in virtual learning. According to experts, kids who have been spending most of the day ...

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Two tasks using the same senses are harder than others, research finds. Aug. 13, 2012 — -- We humans like to think we're good at using our nimble brains to deal with two challenges at once. But ...

Google’s Gemini now supports split-screen multitasking on Android, allowing the AI to assist users directly inside other apps ...

If you can juggle more, faster, you must be performing well. The problem is that this belief feels productive—but it isn’t.

Despite it being a common stereotype, women are no better than men at multitasking, a study published Wednesday suggests. The study, published in the journal Plos One, found that while women tended to ...

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The allure of multitasking is hard to ignore. Of course it sounds like a great idea to take that meeting from the car, or to have Real Housewives on “in the background” while you work, or to check ...