Are Digital Devices Overloading Your Circuits?

Is the Digital Age enhancing our creativity or depriving the brain of downtime that could be used to come up with new ideas?

NYTIMES Aug 2010 | It’s 1 p.m. on a Thursday and Dianne Bates, 40, juggles three screens. She listens to a few songs on her iPod, then taps out a quick e-mail on her iPhone and turns her attention to the high-definition television.

Just another day at the gym. 

As Ms. Bates multitasks, she is also churning her legs in fast loops on an elliptical machine in a downtown fitness center. She is in good company. In gyms and elsewhere, people use phones and other electronic devices to get work done — and as a reliable antidote to…

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