The Distracted Mind Quotes

“The brain has allowed us to perform extraordinary feats from discovering general relativity to painting the Sistine Chapel, from building airplanes to composing symphonies. And yet, we still forget to pick up milk on the way home. How can this be?”
― Adam Gazzaley, The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

“the great tit and the screaming hairy armadillo.”
― Adam Gazzaley, The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

“In a laboratory study, a researcher from Virginia Commonwealth University observed college students during a three-hour study session using video cameras and eye trackers and found that on average, students spent more than an hour listening to music and showed thirty-five interruptions of six seconds or longer, totaling twenty-six disrupted minutes in just three hours.33”
― Adam Gazzaley, The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

“Dr. Rosen’s lab showed that, when asked how easy or difficult it was to pair a variety of tasks together, members of younger generations reported that they felt that it was rather easy to pair most tasks, while those of older generations felt that only more well-practiced tasks could be easily combined.”
― Adam Gazzaley, The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

“Technology has also rapidly invaded our language. Every year the Oxford English Dictionary adds new words that it feels deserve to be part of the English language.”
― Adam Gazzaley, The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World

“Some consumer experts point to a benchmark that when 50 million people have used a product it is considered to have “penetrated” society.”
― Adam Gazzaley, The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World