Richard Cytowic, neurologist, writes about multitasking. From “How Multitasking Drains Your Brain” (MIT Press Reader), adapted from Your Stone Age Brain in the Screen Age: Coping with Digital Distraction and Sensory Overload (2024) :
Keeping ourselves alert and conscious, along with shifting, focusing, and sustaining attention, are the most energy-intensive things our brain can do. The high energy cost of cortical activity is why selective attention — focusing on one thing at a time — exists in the first place and why multitasking is an unaffordable fool’s errand.Related reading
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