MultiTasking

Research generally suggests that multitasking - trying to do two jobs at once - is less productive than focussing on one job and then another. The brain is not very good at multitasking.

See this article in the New York Times.

Links

• How the brain limits our ability to multitask - from Neurophilosophy blog
• The multiple mentality course - about how to perform feats of multitasking, by a performer who could apparently do this
• Multitasking muddles brains, even when the computer is off