• The ability to multitask promotes the development of mental flexibility, which is crucial to achieving high levels of productivity and efficiency in modern workplaces and educational institutions.

• Those who frequently multitask may maintain a wide attentional scope that allows a broader scope of visual information to be absorbed as opposed to those who frequently multitask but maintain a narrower attentional scope.

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• By training and improving cognitive control processes due to frequent media multitasking, the trained attention hypothesis is argued to positively affect cognitive control.

• Multitasking practice can improve ability to filter irrelevant information according to the trained attention hypothesis.

• The trained attention hypothesis is supported by differences in performance when distractor filtering is examined among multitaskers with different frequencies.

Theories of attention (positive effects)

May, K.E., Elder, A.D. Efficient, helpful, or distracting? A literature review of media multitasking in relation to academic performance. Int J Educ Technol High Educ 15, 13 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1186/s41239-018-0096-z


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