Media Multi-Tasking: Are there Effects on Attention, Memory and the Brain?
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In a world with ubiquitous access to information, many multi-task with multiple media streams. Does this alter fundamental aspects of human cognition? Professor Wagner will discuss the latest science on how cognition and neural function relate to chronic media multi-tasking. Anthony Wagner, PhD ’97 is a professor of psychology and neuroscience and director of the Stanford Memory Laboratory. Classes Without Quizzes are presented by the Stanford Alumni Association. Filmed on location at Stanford Reunion Homecoming 2015.
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