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02.07.2016

They say that only the divine Julius could simultaneously do seven things, and this art is not subject to a mere mortal. But first the emergence of a multitasking operating system, and then the penetration of many devices distributing information from the virtual into the real world, somewhat changed this ancient truth.

No, it's still true, but nevertheless, many people now tend to do several things at the same time, such as reading a book, listening to music, watching a movie on TV, and browsing the news feed on a tablet. And everything turns out badly for them, because there is no way to focus on one task. A kind of multitasking people appeared, or, as American experts called them, always able to find a capacious English expression that is poorly translated into other languages, heavy media multitaskers - something like "multitaskers with a heavy addiction to the information environment." Psychologists, naturally, doing their job, want to help them live in the modern world, for which they set up experiments.

Here is a recent result from Shaun Greene and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (NewsWise, April 18, 2016). Two groups of people participated in the experiment: some lived in the old fashioned way, while others lived in an information-rich environment with full multitasking. Both groups performed attention tests, but they were constantly distracted by having to look at something on the Web.

As expected, the second group failed the tests, showing much worse results: the information-dependent habitually could not focus on either of the two tasks. But before the start of the test, each group did the simplest meditative exercise - people sat for ten minutes at rest, concentrating on counting the series of their inhalations and exhalations, nine in a series. And it turned out that not only did the results of both groups increase, but now multitasking people were more successful in coping with the tests.

“Of course, the beneficial effects of exercise are very short-lived,” says Shaun Green. “However, it is clear that for those people who use several gadgets at the same time, all is not lost: their attention system is by no means damaged. need".

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