Growing up multitasking: The costs and benefits for cognitive development

By Mary L. Courage, Aishah Bakhtiar, Cheryll L. Fitzpatrick, S. Kenny, Katie Brandeau. 2015

140 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Education, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Education

1. Zsofia K. Takacs
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3. S. Neuman
4. L. Marulis

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1. Zsofia K. Takacs
2. A. Bus
3. C. A. T. Kegel

Citations in the corpus

• Affordances and limitations of electronic storybooks for young children's emergent literacy (2015, background): “Rather than enhancing learning outcomes as intended, carrying out game-like activities during the story reading session interrupts the processing of the story line and results in interference, distraction, and ultimately errors and diminished performance (Courage et al., 2014).”
• Efficient, helpful, or distracting? A literature review of media multitasking in relation to academic performance (2018, unknown): “This is because experimental literature to date on divided attention and dual-task performance demonstrates a limited processing system and consequential deterioration in performance and productivity when multitasking (Courage et al., 2015).”