Is it really possible to multi-task?

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I’m subscribe to a Discovery Channel Podcast named “FRIDAY NEWS FEEDBAG”, in a recent program they talked about multitasking in humans , the talk included an interview to a scientist explaining the topic. Basically we cannot multitask activities that use the same part of the brain, mainly we are switching activities.

As far as I can explain, we can only multitask things that we do almost automatically, let’s say walk and breathe at the same time.

You can find the post of the podcast here.

If you are interested in he audio, here is it.

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