Saturday, April 24, 2010

Humans Cannot Multitask (Even Women)

The research showed that humans prefer a simple choice of two options,
rather than three or more. ALAMY


From The Independent:

Study finds the structure of the brain means we struggle to do more than two jobs at once.

The human mind may be inherently incapable of dealing with more than two tasks at a time according to a study showing that "multi-tasking" skills are limited by the physical division of the brain into two hemispheres.

Scientists have found that when people have to carry out two tasks simultaneously their brains divide each job up so that one is performed largely by the left side of the brain and the other is carried out mainly on the right.

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