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isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit2/?p=253</guid> <description><![CDATA[The September issue of the International Journal of Neuroscience, 2007 published an article entitled, Frequent Mobile Phone Use &#8220;Might&#8221; Improve Mental Concentration. The study was performed by researchers from Brainclinics Diagnostics and the Radboud University department of Biological Psychology both from Nijmegen (the Netherlands), the Institute of Psychiatry (London) and the Brain Resource Company (Sydney, [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/cell-phone-use-and-attention/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Multitasking vs Task Switching Research</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/multitasking-vs-task-switching-research/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/multitasking-vs-task-switching-research/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:42:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Adult ADHD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain Plasticity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Information Overload]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Multi-tasking]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit2/?p=17</guid> <description><![CDATA[I recently debated multitasking to task switching. Multitasking denotes attention to a variety of extraneous and internal stimuli. All research that I can find concludes that the human mind performs much less efficiently under multitasking environments–this includes the following article from Johns Hopkins University and published in The Journal of Neuroscience. Task switching denotes shifting [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/multitasking-vs-task-switching-research/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Good Morning America Features Play Attention</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/good-morning-america-features-play-attention/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/good-morning-america-features-play-attention/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:49:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Diagnosis]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Adult ADD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain Plasticity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Distractions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Information Overload]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Multi-tasking]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit2/?p=135</guid> <description><![CDATA[Play Attention was featured on the ABC News Show &#8211; Good Morning America on June 20,2005. Some parents are trying to get their kids to refocus by using a video game. Former teacher Peter Freer invented a concentration game called &#8220;Play Attention,&#8221; which borrows from technology and exercises developed by NASA to sharpen pilots’ focus. [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/good-morning-america-features-play-attention/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Are We a Nation of ‘Psuedo-ADD’ Sufferers?</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/are-we-a-nation-of-%e2%80%98psuedo-add%e2%80%99-sufferers/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/are-we-a-nation-of-%e2%80%98psuedo-add%e2%80%99-sufferers/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:47:18 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Symptoms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Adult ADD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Distractions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Information Overload]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Multi-tasking]]></category> <category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit2/?p=133</guid> <description><![CDATA[Are We a Nation of ‘Psuedo-ADD’ Sufferers? Society’s Breakneck Pace Encourages Lack of Focus, Concentration, Some Say Americans often have hundreds of television channels to choose from, and high-speed Internet access, e-mail and personal digital assistants keeping them connected – but if you are so &#8220;connected&#8221; that you’re beginning to feel rather disconnected, you may [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/are-we-a-nation-of-%e2%80%98psuedo-add%e2%80%99-sufferers/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Children and Cognitive Overload</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/children-and-cognitive-overload/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/children-and-cognitive-overload/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:23:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Distractions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Information Overload]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Multi-tasking]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit2/?p=119</guid> <description><![CDATA[As Neil Postman observed in Amusing Ourselves to Death, we are in an age where we are inundated with information. Postman states that the average Sunday edition of the New York Times contains more information than a person in the 1700s got in a lifetime. Now, The Seattle times reports We’re shooting through technological rapids [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/children-and-cognitive-overload/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Children Today: Multi-tasking or Multi-distracted?</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/children-today-multi-tasking-or-multi-distracted/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/children-today-multi-tasking-or-multi-distracted/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:30:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Children]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Symptoms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Video Games]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brain Development]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Distractions]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Information Overload]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Multi-tasking]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit2/?p=125</guid> <description><![CDATA[As I’ve qualitatively interviewed hundreds of people that I meet at conferences and seminars, I’ve found one underlying current especially relevant to the pace of life right now: most of us feel overwhelmed. We are exposed to information from cell phones, faxes, email, TV, radio, pagers, PDAs, print media, computers, the Internet, etc. This constant [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/children-today-multi-tasking-or-multi-distracted/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Multitasking, ADD and the Workplace</title><link>http://www.playattention.com/multitasking-add-and-the-workplace/</link> <comments>http://www.playattention.com/multitasking-add-and-the-workplace/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2005 22:38:57 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Peter</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[ADHD: Symptoms]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Adult ADD]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Information Overload]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Multi-tasking]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://playattention.com/attention-deficit2/?p=127</guid> <description><![CDATA[real life: Dana Knight Attention, please. Distracted workers often fail to produce April 8, 2005 I was just about to get down to the nitty-gritty of writing when an evil little temporary tattoo I received in the mail peeked from beneath my towering stack of files. Wonder what that would look like on my ankle? [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.playattention.com/multitasking-add-and-the-workplace/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
