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Smartphones Don’t Make Us Dumb
The New York Times: AS much as we love our digital devices, many of us have an uneasy sense that they are destroying our attention spans. We skitter from app to app, seldom alighting for
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The Curious Science of When Multitasking Works
Harvard Business Review: Trying to do two things at once is usually a recipe for doing both badly, according to a long line of research. We’re slower and less accurate when we try to juggle two things. Experts
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Preventing Road Accidents Before They Can Happen
Perceptual errors, when a driver looks but fails to register pedestrians or other vehicles, are one of the leading causes of car accidents. Sometimes called “looked-but-failed-to-see” accidents, because a driver fails to notice another vehicle
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Distraction Is No Longer A Barrier For Learning
Gizmodo: Does your kid complain that he is unable to focus on his study because he is being distracted by things around him? If next time he says so, don’t believe him. A new study
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Psychonomic Society’s 56th Annual Meeting
Psychonomic Society’s 56th Annual Meeting November 19–22, 2015 Chicago, Illinois, USA www.psychonomic.org/annual-meeting Keynote Address: Asher Koriat, University of Haifa
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Why Kids Won’t Quit Technology
The Atlantic: Smartphones, iPads, TVs, computers, video games. Technology is omnipresent, especially for young students. They just can’t get enough; one 2013 study found that college students check their digital devices for non-class purposes 11 times per