Brain Rules: The brain cannot multitask - The Diigo Meta page

• 12 Aug 09
  

  Howard Rheingold

  Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time. At first that might sound confusing; at one level the brain does multitask. You can walk and talk at the same time. Your brain controls your heartbeat while you read a book. Pianists can play a piece with left hand and right hand simultaneously. Surely this is multitasking. But I am talking about the brain’s ability to pay attention. It is the resource you forcibly deploy while trying to listen to a boring lecture at school. It is the activity that collapses as your brain wanders during a tedious presentation at work. This attentional ability is not capable of multitasking.

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• 31 Jul 09
  

  Yassine L Hassani

  Idées clés : L'homme n'est pas multi tache.
  Le multitasking génère 50% d'erreurs en + et 50% de délais en + (cf. graphique)
  Passer d'une tache néeccite l'activation de 4 taches par le cerveau
  Les personnes qui affirment être multi taches ont simplement une meilleures mémoire que les autres : ils sont capables de retrouver plus rapidement le fil de ce qu'ils faisaient avant la rupture de la tache
  Il a tout de même dans cet articles des affirmations contestables ou pas suffisament fouillées et nuancées

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  • Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time.
  • Pianists can play a piece with left hand and right hand simultaneously. Surely this is multitasking. But I am talking about the brain’s ability to pay attention.
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  • • attentional ability is not capable of multitasking.
    • e can’t multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously
    • people find themselves losing track of previous progress and needing to “start over,” perhaps muttering things like “Now where was I?” each time they switch tasks.
    • The best you can say is that people who appear to be good at multitasking actually have good working memories, capable of paying attention to several inputs one at a time.
    • Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.
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• 18 Jun 09
  

  d major

  @englishraven John Medina, author of Brain Rules, says we cannot multitask. http://bit.ly/tAwr0 [from http://twitter.com/daylemajor/statuses/3752068112]

  multitasking brain

• 03 Jan 09
  

  Bertrand Duperrin

  Multitasking, when it comes to paying attention, is a myth. The brain naturally focuses on concepts sequentially, one at a time. At first that might sound confusing; at one level the brain does multitask. You can walk and talk at the same time. Your brain controls your heartbeat while you read a book. Pianists can play a piece with left hand and right hand simultaneously. Surely this is multitasking. But I am talking about the brain’s ability to pay attention. It is the resource you forcibly deploy while trying to listen to a boring lecture at school. It is the activity that collapses as your brain wanders during a tedious presentation at work. This attentional ability is not capable of multitasking.

  attention multitasking interruption

• 18 Sep 08
  

  Ben Harper

  Effects of multitasking on attention

  Research Learning_Styles shortcut:attention

  • We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.
  • Studies show that a person who is interrupted takes 50 percent longer to accomplish a task. Not only that, he or she makes up to 50 percent more errors.
• 13 Jun 08
  

  Chuck Brands

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