Media multitasking is associated with distractibility and increased prefrontal activity in adolescents and young adults

NeuroImage

Volumn 134, Issue , 2016, Pages 113-121

  Moisala, M ^a,b   Salmela, V ^a,b   Hietajarvi L ^a   Salo, E ^a,b   Carlson, S ^b,c   Salonen, O ^d   Lonka, K ^a   Hakkarainen, K ^a   Salmela Aro, K ^a,e,f   Alho, K ^a,b,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; fMRI; Media multitasking; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISTRACTIBILITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LISTENING; MALE; MEDIA MULTITASKING; NEUROIMAGING; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SELF REPORT; SPEECH; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; HEARING; MULTIMEDIA; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; MULTITASKING BEHAVIOR; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84963616116     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.011     Document Type: Article

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