Cognitive control in media multitaskers: Two replication studies and a meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Ophir, Nass, and Wagner (2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(37), 15583-15587) found that people with high scores on the media-use questionnaire-a questionnaire that measures the proportion of media-usage time during which one uses more than one medium at the same time-show impaired performance on various tests of distractor filtering. Subsequent studies, however, did not all show this association between media multitasking and distractibility, thus casting doubt on the reliability of the initial findings. Here, we report the results of two replication studies and a meta-analysis that included the results from all published studies into the relationship between distractor filtering and media multitasking. Our replication studies includ

SUBMITTER: Wiradhany W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5662702 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature