Home Department: Psychology
Supported by: anonymous donor
Mentor: Anthony Wagner, Psychology

Monica is investigating the relationship between a person's media multitasking level (the amount that someone uses multiple forms of media simultaneously) and their capacity to manipulate and remember stimuli using working and long-term memory.

Poster presented at the Stanford Bio-X Interdisciplinary Initiatives Symposium on August 27, 2014:

Reduced Working Memory Predicts Impaired Long-Term Memory in Chronic Media Multitaskers

Monica Thieu¹, Melina Uncapher¹, Anthony Wagner^1,2
[Department of Psychology¹ and Neurosciences Program², Stanford University]