In this article researchers are finding a way if multitasking is good or bad between the correlation of mobile phones. Published studies of multitasking show that most individuals undertaking several activities at the same time compromise performance on all tasks. Evidence that mobile phone use distracts from driving tasks is particularly strong both in young drivers and in the elderly. Inexperience in the former and slower reaction time in the latter contribute to poor performance during distractions. Text messaging is even worse as a distracting activity and doubles the risk of crashing above that of just talking on a cell phone. Mobile phone use of any type was documented to impair driving as much as being drunk while driving Studies of pedestrians have also clearly shown that mobile phone users (either conversing or waiting for a call) crossed unsafely into oncoming traffic significantly more than did iPod users or pedestrians not using any mobile device. The mobile phone users also recalled fewer objects along their route than did the other two groups.
These findings again confirm that cognitive distraction reduces situation awareness and increases unsafe behavior in pedestrians [386] .y emerged, termed by the writer as
‘distracted doctoring’. Medical staff tend to spend more time and
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Some evidence suggests that adapting to a high input level of varying distractions can actually improve creativity. Learning under different degrees of focus takes place in different parts of the brain: if there is little distraction, the hippocampus is involved, but if the learning occurs during multitasking, the striatum is activated. In conclusion, our current epidemic of distraction, the byproduct of the electronic age, often interferes with creativity as well as with everyday performance. Our ‘CQ’ (creative quotient) is falling because of cognitive overload imposed by multitasking, even if the IQ does not