Scientists say multi-taskers may be ruining their brains

If you’re on your laptop right now, or your iPold or cell phone, stop!

Scientists say multi-taskers may be ruining their brains.

Stanford researchers found college students who use multiple forms of media at once have more trouble determining what’s important and what’s not.

“High multi-taskers love to grab new information at the expense of carefully managing the information they already have,“ explains professor Clifford Nass.

The study showed the memories of multi-taskers are lousy.

The study also found multi-taskers are actually slower at switching tasks than those who do one thing at a time, so there’s old advice for a new generation: Do less to accomplish more.

Next the researchers are going to look at brain scans of people who work with multiple media and study whether grades and relationships suffer.