Admit it or not, you’re addicted to your smartphone — in fact, chances are you’re reading this on a mobile device right now.
If smartphone addiction weren’t bad enough, you'll also have to know there’s one other potential side-effect of using the smartphone: A new report from Time says smartphones also make us more easily distracted.
In fact, it seems that the more we interact with our mobile devices while we’re supposed to do something else, the more difficult it is for our brains to focus back on the matter at hand.
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“Every time you switch your focus from one thing to another, there’s something called a switch-cost,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of neuroscience Dr. Earl Miller told the publication. “Your brain stumbles a bit, and it requires time to get back to where it was before it was distracted.”
