Effects of Media Multitasking and Video Gaming on Cognitive Functions and Their Neural Bases in Adolescents and Young Adults

Abstract. The increasing use of digital technology among adolescents and young adults has led to concerns about possible detrimental effects on cognitive brain functions. Indeed, as reviewed here, according behavioral brain-imaging studies, excessive media multitasking (i.e., using different in parallel) may lead enhanced distractibility problems maintaining attention. However, frequent video gaming be beneficial for the development working memory, task switching, attention skills. All these skills depend executive Still scant but gradually cumulating results suggest that negative positive are mediated by frontal lobes, implicated functions still developing even through early adulthood.