New Delhi, March 20 -- We all know the familiar feeling when you are focused on something but then a notification from your phone just breaks that flow things don't feel the same again, at least for a while. Well, now a new study has revealed that even a single social media notification can hijack your brain's cognitive processing for around 7 seconds.

The news comes to light via a new study which will be published in the June edition of the journal Computers in Human Behavior. The study goes into how the notifications on our phone can disrupt our attention and hijack the limited cognitive resources

They also found that the diruptions were magnitude of notification induced disruption was higher when users believed the notifications were...