When transplant surgeons switched between different organ types in consecutive surgeries, one-year mortality rates in patients increased by 14.8%, according to new Virginia Tech research. The findings ...

Quick chats” often feel harmless but can derail focus and deep work. Small interruptions add up, fragmenting attention and ...

A Virginia Tech study found that transplant surgeons who switched between different organ types in consecutive operations saw a 14.8% increase in one-year patient mortality. The research, published in ...

Cognitive control is the set of executive functions that underpins our ability to regulate thoughts and actions in line with internal goals, particularly in complex and dynamic environments. Task ...

Our minds are simply not designed follow multiple trains of thought simultaneously, and so task switching comes at immediate, and lasting, time and productivity costs. The solution is to prepare for ...

From Pacific Standard magazine: "We all call it 'multitasking,' but psychologists insist that's a misnomer. Since we can't actually focus on more than one thing at a time, the skill is really 'task ...