The juggler’s brain (continued)

A now famous Stanford study by Eyal Ophir and Cliff Nass (et al.) found that heavy media multitaskers — people whoconstantly shift their attention between differentof streams of information — have less control over their thoughts and less ability to distinguish important information from unimportant stuff. In a word, heavy multitaskers arescatterbrained. A new study, “Higher Media Multi-Tasking Activity Is Associated with Smaller Gray-Matter Density in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex,”by two ne...