When politicians “flood the zone” with information, important news can get lost. Critical ignoring is a cognitive strategy ...

According to the latest Nielsen Total Audience Report, US adults spend almost 11 hours a day consuming media. That translates to 70 percent of waking time. Which means you spend 70 percent of your day ...

“My son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh” — Ecclesiastes 12:12 Information overload is nothing new. It has been around for millennia.

Digital clutter has become a ubiquitous problem in modern society. With the abundance of digital devices and the ease of access to information, we are constantly bombarded with emails, notifications, ...

In life science research, data comes in many forms - structured clinical trial tables, semi-structured instrument outputs, and unstructured lab notes or images. This “variety” makes it difficult to ...

Email has a bad reputation for being the main cause of information overload; just look at the massive amounts of articles and studies devoted to the topic: According to a 2012 report from consulting ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- It's called information overload and the term is the same in business circles as well as medical circles. The term might get overused, but it's certainly important in medicine. A ...

As I write this I have 42 Internet tabs open, across four browsers, and I feel completely at ease. Apparently, I'm not alone. A new Pew Research Center study found that most Americans are not ...