When we juggle tasks, the brain may not be overloaded or distracted. New research indicates information from one task leaks ...

Cognitive flexibility, the ability to adjust one's way of thinking or behavior as a situation changes, is known to gradually ...

New research by neuroscientists at the University of Chicago looked at what happens in the brain when it tries to complete ...

Do you feel like your energy disappears every time you switch from one task to another? Task switching can leave you feeling drained, unfocused, and worn out, especially if you’re neurodivergent.

Transitions can be tough. For neurodivergent women, they can feel jarring, overwhelming, and almost impossible to do smoothly. Whether it’s moving from one task to another, wrapping up an activity, or ...

Doing more than one thing at once, especially on screens, can become addictive, which harms the functioning of our brain and nervous system.

Multitasking may give you the illusion that you’re getting more done. But it’s actually a poor tool for efficiency. Despite that — and after decades of ever-increasing expectations for productivity — ...

We live in an era when endless switching from one type of activity to another has become a necessity of life. Throughout the day, our focus on specific tasks gets disrupted by various emails, texts, ...

One big question is how the brain can represent an unlimited variability of information using only a finite number of neurons," Osako says. To get at that question, the researchers trained mice on a ...