Multitasking usually lowers productivity because most people are “task switching,” which creates a mental “switch cost” that slows processing and reduces accuracy. Switching between tasks strains ...

Have you ever walked into a room, stared at the wall and forgot why you went in there? What failed you was your working memory. You were supposed to store the plan of what you were going to do next in ...

Rosenau, associate professor of Psychology at the University of Houston, showed that blackouts in working memory, which cause a person to instantly forget the information they have just read, are ...