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• 20 Jun 07
  

  Wisely

  attention brain

  • There is a yin and yang effect between visual and auditory attention. When one is looking, then auditory processing areas go down, and when one is listening, then visual processing areas go down. Mixed visual-auditory stimuli have an underadditive effect, so that if you have to do both at the same time, total brain activation goes down, and interestingly, language processing becomes more left hemisphere-dominant.
  • No wonder many of these folks prefer to skip note-taking in class, and either wing it, learn it their own way on their own, or file lecture information as images rather than words.
• 18 Jun 07
  

  Christy Tucker

  learning multitasking neurolearning

  • There is a yin and yang effect between visual and auditory attention. When one is looking, then auditory processing areas go down, and when one is listening, then visual processing areas go down. Mixed visual-auditory stimuli have an underadditive effect, so that if you have to do both at the same time, total brain activation goes down, and interestingly, language processing becomes more left hemisphere-dominant.

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  Christy Tucker on 2007-06-18
  Looking at what happens in the brain when we're multitasking with both the visual and auditory channels. This seems to contradict the cognitive overload theory, at least in how it's presented here. I need to go through some of the references provided to dig deeper.
  

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