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

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Moisala, M., Salmela, V., Hietajärvi, L., Salo, E., Carlson, S., Salonen, O., Lonka, K., Hakkarainen, K., Salmela-Aro, K., Alho, K.·2016·NeuroImage

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The current generation of young people indulges in more media multitasking behavior (e.g., instant messaging while watching videos) in their everyday lives than older generations. Concerns have been raised about how this might affect their attentional functioning, as previous studies have indicated that extensive media multitasking in everyday life may be associated with decreased attentional control. In the current study, 149 adolescents and young adults (aged 13-24years) performed speech-listening and reading tasks that required maintaining attention in the presence of distractor stimuli in the other modality or dividing attention between two concurrent tasks. Brain activity during task performance was measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We studied the relationship between self-reported daily media multitasking (MMT), task performance and brain activity during task performance. The results showed that in the presence of distractor stimuli, a higher MMT score was associated with worse performance and increased brain activity in right prefrontal regions. The level of performance during divided attention did not depend on MMT. This suggests that daily media multitasking is associated with behavioral distractibility and increased recruitment of brain areas involved in attentional and inhibitory control, and that media multitasking in everyday life does not translate to performance benefits in multitasking in laboratory settings.

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Authors: Moisala, M., Salmela, V., Hietajärvi, L., Salo, E., Carlson, S., Salonen, O., Lonka, K., Hakkarainen, K., Salmela-Aro, K., & Alho, K.
Affiliations: University of Helsinki (FI)
Helsinki University Hospital (FI)
Corresponding author: Moisala, M.
ORCID: Moisala, M.
Salmela, V.
Hietajärvi, L.
Salo, E.
Carlson, S.
Lonka, K.
Hakkarainen, K.
Alho, K.
Venue: NeuroImage
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2016-07
Volume: 134
Pages: 113-121
ISSN: 1053-8119 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.04.011
OpenAlex: W2316381207
Cited by: 200
References: 55
Citations by year: 2026: 20 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 17 · 2023: 21 · 2022: 33 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 2
FWCI: 9.97
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
hdl.handle.net
Licence: other-oa
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: NeuroImage (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Jyväskylä University Digital Archive (University of Jyväskylä) (submittedVersion)
Funders: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Personal Information Management and User Behavior
Social Sciences › Communication › Digital Media and Philosophy
Keywords: media multitasking, distractibility, prefrontal cortex, adolescents, young adults, attentional control, inhibitory control, divided attention, distractor interference, everyday media use
MeSH terms: Multitasking Behavior, Adolescent, Attention, Auditory Perception, Brain Mapping, Female, Humans, Male, Nerve Net, Reading, Task Performance and Analysis, Prefrontal Cortex, Multimedia, Young Adult

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