ipods, the deluge of e-mails, phone calls, text and media, it s with us everywhere. even if you re not plugged in at all times, the guy is about to bump into you because he s staring at his gadget is. scientists say this onslaught is rewiring our brains. jamie colby is here with more on that. this doesn t sound good. with more and with my blackberry. how many devices are the people watching us working? right, it s a deluge with the brain. we ve all become media multi taskers. researchers say being bombarded by several streams of electronic information at one time is curbing our cognitive control. i use a laptop, i use the desktop, i use my blackberry, i use an iphone, and then for my leisure, i use the kendall. often all at the same time. beth is a blogger, mother of two and tech junkie, trying to cut back. the minute that your child takes your phone and
puts it into the refrigerator and hides it from you or consciously says mom, focus on me and not on your computer, it s a wake-up call. stanford university researchers recently studied about 100 media multi taskers like beth. we saw they had more trouble switching back and forth between tasks, specifically because whenever they were doing one task they couldn t help thinking about the task they weren t doing so everything was getting jumbled together. the stanford study found we may actually be changing the way our brain works. they re letting the information control what they pay attention to rather than they being in control. my expectation is that our brains probably are being rewired in some way. feldman insists her devices are the only way to do it all in an increasingly high-tech world that demands it and admittedly she s paying a price. the worst part is the e-mails that come in on a sunday from a client when i m at a ballgame with my