This is your brain on unread emails: does the information age stop us thinking straight?

Three new books explore the modern information assault - and how to survive it.

By Sophie McBain

(Photo By Right to roam: our mindsâ?T ability to wander is what allows us to forge creative links. Ac Martin O'Neil)

The Organised Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Daniel Levitin
Penguin, 528pp, £9.99

The World Beyond Your Head: How to Flourish in an Age of Distraction
Matthew Crawford
Viking, 305pp, £16.99

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Sophie McBain

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Sophie McBain is associate editor of the New Statesman and writes on psychology, society and the science of us. She has reported for the New Statesman from the US and Middle East and her writing has earned her two British Society of Magazine Editors awards and the 2016 Amnesty International Award for best feature.