A few off the top of my head: A book I often recommend is "The Organized Mind", by Dan Levitin. He focuses heavily on the prefrontal cortex – executive functio

A few off the top of my head: A book I often recommend is "The Organized Mind", by Dan Levitin. He focuses heavily on the prefrontal cortex – executive function, etc. But the takeaway for me was his analysis of how much it 'costs' the brain to context switch. "Flow" by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is considered a classic on the subject. An interview that's been on my mind recently is this one from 2013 on multitasking with Stanford Psychology professor Clifford Nass: http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182861382/the-myth-of-multitasking http://www.npr.org/2013/05/10/182861382/the-myth-of-multitas...