In the first article from science daily and the research done by the two professors at Boston College is sort of not fair to the television. The television doesn't have nearly the amount of apps or functions that a computer dose. With a computer you can pull up two or three different screens of material, research, and projects or assignments on your task bar or navigation pane. With a television all you can do is change the channels to different stations, and adjust the color, contrast and other adjustments on how you watch the screen. You can do the same type of adjustments on a computer plus more, so the computer will always win out. You will still have a split attention span on both devices, but more of it will go to the computer.
The Doug Caverly focuses on concentration when you are multitasking. There are many ways a person can do this type of action. You must be careful someone or a situation in which you will get distracted while you are multitasking will add to your thought process. This in turn will throw your concentration off depending on the person. Distractions affect both young and old, but depending on what you are doing distractions will affect older people more. Finally what type of attention span you have has a broad range and depends on the person. Dr. Adam Gazzaley who did the research on this subject of multitasking for; University of California at San Francisco. He states that you may want to cut back on social media, smart phones, iPads and other devices to clear your mind.
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