Essays & Opinion Pieces
Tips from neuroscience to keep you focused on hard tasks
March 15, 2021 | Nature
A series on Dr. Badre’s book On Task
January 2021 | The Brains Blog
How we can deal with ‘pandemic fatigue’
January 24, 2021 | Scientific American | Featured cover story for Scientific American Mind, March 2021 issue
David Badre on his book On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done
December 16, 2021 | Rorotoko
Multitasking and the Pandemic Parent
August 24, 2020 | Princeton University Press
Profiles, Interviews, & Features
Start Retraining for Social Interactions
March 27, 2021 | The New York Times | Katherine Cusumano
Focus, Persistence, and Cognitive Control: Neuroscience Reveals How to Achieve Big Goals
March 23, 2021 | Inc | Jeff Haden
Why people cared less about catching COVID when it mattered most
March 22, 2021 | Popular Science | Erin Fennessy
“On Task: How Our Brain Gets Things Done” with Professor David Badre | Listen on SoundCloud
February 9, 2021 | Bridging the Gaps | Dr. Waseem Akhtar
Brown neuroscience professor David Badre illustrates the science of cognitive control in first book
February 1, 2021 | The Brown Daily Herald | Claire Liu
Did You Get Anything Done Today? Thank Cognitive Control
January 29, 2021 | Slice of MIT | Nicole Estvanik Taylor
Why you can’t multitask (and why that’s a good thing) | Podcast Transcript
January 18, 2021 | Science Focus | Amy Barrett
Carney Conversations: How the brain gets things done
December 15, 2020 | The Carney Institute at Brown University | Moderators Diane Lipscombe & Christopher Moore
On Task: A conversation with neuroscientist David Badre
December 14, 2020 | The Gordon School | Moderator Gabe Burnstein
March 1, 2016 | Academic Minute
Book Reviews for “On Task: How the Brain Gets Things Done”
Coffee with the executive | PDF Version
March 22, 2021 | Current Biology | Zsuzsa Kaldy
March 4, 2021 | Brain: A Journal of Neurology | Masud Husain
A review of On Task from the New Books Network | Listen on Apple Podcasts
February 17, 2021 | New Books Network | Joseph Fridman