Overloaded: 7 Things You Should Know About Your Internet-Interrupted Brain

When engaged in any task all the human brain really has is attention, our ability to focus and respond. And our attention only functions inside the shell of what cognitive psychologists call working memory.

Too many interruptions, as Carr points out, and you lose your ability to move information from working into long term memory, where we can retrieve, contemplate and re-enact it -- in other words, think.