I'll just
point out that even with your brain's 100 billion neurons processing
information at a rate of up to a thousand times per second, you simply cannot
do two tasks at the same time effectively. That is according to Vanderbilt University neuroscientist Paul E. Dux of the University of Queensland in
Australia.
A central
bottleneck exists in the brain that prevents you from doing two things at once,
they say. Their neurological evidence shows that it's caused by "the
inability of the lateral frontal and prefrontal cortex and the superior fontal
cortex to process two tasks at once."
Or more
simply put, "Humans can barely attend to more than one stimulus at a time
and have extreme difficulty undertaking multiple tasks concurrently," says
Dux, based on work in his attention and control lab.
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