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Brain Rules: The brain cannot multitask

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.

Tags: attention, multitasking, interruption on 2009-01-03 and saved by 4 people -All Annotations (2) -About

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Les « digital natives » la génération multi-écrans

Même s'ils sont très proches des « Y » en terme de consommation de produits numériques, leur comportement est déjà très marqué. Étant père de quatre garçons dont trois sont des « Y » dans la vingtaine, mon petit dernier qui a onze ans m'intrigue, me questionne et je suis en passe de me demander si nous ne sommes pas en présence du premier type d'espèce que l'on pourrait nommer « Homo numericus ». Puisque que j'ai la chance d'avoir un spécimen sous la main, voici quelques points et anecdotes tirés de mes observations:

Tags: digitalnatives, multitasking, web, internet, information, communication on 2008-11-29 and saved by 8 people -All Annotations (18) -About

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