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2 unusual facts about Human multitasking


Distraction

Multitasking could also be considered as distraction in situations requiring full attention on a single object (e.g. sports, academic tests, performance).

Gender differences in human memory

This advantage in short-term memory is thought to be linked to women’s superior ability to attend to more than one task at once, or ‘multitask’.


Multicommunicating

As a concept, multicommunicating primarily builds off Hall’s work on polychronicity, Goffman’s theory of the presentation of self, and Daft and Lengel’s notion of media richness; multicommunicating is also similar in nature to the notion of multitasking.

Naomi Baron

She is also interested in language use in the computer age, instant messaging, text messaging, mobile phone practices, cross-cultural research on mobile phones, Human multitasking behavior, and Facebook online social interaction usage by American college students.


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