Various studies reveal mental and physical problems caused by multitasking

ByJoseph Martinez

British politician of the 18th centurySir ChesterfieldSays to one of the advice he sent to his son, "If you do one work at a time, you will be able to finish all the work in the day, but if you try two things at once, It can not be done in a day. " Sir Chesterfield's opposition is multitasking at the present time. Multitasking that works as fast as possible and handles as much as possible at the same time is revealed as a spell in contemporary society, but in reality it has been found to cause mental and physical problems.

(PDF file) The Myth of Multitasking - TheMythofMultitasking_Rosen.pdf
http://faculty.winthrop.edu/hinera/CRTW-Spring_2011/TheMythofMultitasking_Rosen.pdf

The term "multitasking" comes from "computer processing multiple tasks at once", and from around 1990 to the beginning of 2000, it is a kind of work to accomplish multiple tasks among society people It seems that it began to generalize as a skill. Published in 1999 "Faster"In the book" I always tried multitasking, such as chewing gum while walking, but it is not that I was not consciously doing it myself. " Also in 2001New York TimesAlso contributing an article to teach the multitasking method to the beginning of the period from 1990 to 2000 that the question to the reader is written as "Do you remember the thing before starting multitasking?" The word "multitasking" was prevalent.

ByWajakemek | rashdanothman

Although it is multitasking that has penetrated society and is sometimes deified in a sense, research that emits warnings to multitasking has been announced one after another in recent years. Many studies have pointed out that the use of mobile phones and electronic devices while driving a car has the danger of being related to human life. Actually, in the United States there are provinces prohibited by law, and even in Japan it is stipulated that it is a violation under the Road Traffic Act.

ByTim Caynes

It is the same in business places where importance is attached to time management, and in 2005Hewlett-PackardThe team of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of London who was undertaking research on multitasking, "The IQ of businessmen are declining when they are distracted by e-mails and phones, and as a numerical value sucking marijuana It is about two times lower than when we did it. " According to the research team, multitasking has an adverse effect on work productivity.

ByDavid Goehring

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorderDr. Edward Hallowell, a psychiatrist at the University of Massachusetts specializing in the treatment of the book "CrazyBusy"I call it" an illusion that people believe that two or more tasks can be performed at the same time ", and in an article written in 2005," Multitasking that is prevalent in the business industry Characteristics "is named. According to Hallowell doctor, "Characteristics of attention deficit" is a reaction of pure body to the present age that is too busy, and it is similar to the symptom of "attention deficit disorder", "If you look back on any history, this There is no time when the burden has been burdened by the brain so much "and shows a rather negative attitude towards multitasking.

ByAmir Jina

Although experts point out mental damage caused by multitasking, others have studied about physical damage by multitasking. Jordan Grafman, Director of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Institutes of HealthFMRI, We investigated "brain in multitasking". As a result, when switching tasks during multitasking,Frontal lobeBe in front ofFrontal poleAn increase in blood flow to the part called "confirmed" was confirmed. The fact that the blood flow is increasing means that the frontal pole is working more than usual, which is burdensome. "Frontal pole is the most mysterious part in the brain," Grafman said.

There are other studies investigating the brain during multitasking, according to a survey of psychologist Roné Marois of Vanta-Bilt University, if the brain has to respond immediately to multiple stimuli, , That is, it takes time to select which task, so it has proved that the work speed will be slowed as a result. According to another scholar, it is known that hormones and adrenaline related to stress are secreted by multitasking, and proper control of these ingredients can cause health problems or cause damage to short-term memory That's right.

ByPatrick Hoesly

Recent research has found that multitasking also interferes with learning ability. In a study by Russell Poldrack, a professor of psychology at the University of California, the brain in multitasking is a part of the brain involved in learning new skills "StriatumWe save the information gained to ", but the brain is usually"HippocampusSave the information in the storage space called. "While modern people's brain will use different parts to learn at the time of learning, the brain does not have such a mechanism," Poldrack warns.

Multitasking also exists in the place of human life, and nowMedia · MultitaskingThere is also the word saying. Media / multitasking, for example, to e-mail on mobile phones while watching television and to internet while listening to music.Kaiser Family FoundationAccording to the survey, it turned out that about 26% of the time people are using the media are using two or more media simultaneously. This result is 10% higher than the 1999 data. Children who grow up in such an environment say that there is a possibility of having problems with attention.

ByVictor 1558

For modern children, multitasking is quite natural, becoming a part of everyday life. However, as various research and survey results show, the possibility that multitasking will seriously damage individuals and cultures is not low at all.