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Published online 15 July 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.690
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How brain training makes multitasking easier
Practice speeds up the part of the brain that lets us tackle many jobs at once.
Researchers in the United States have pinpointed the region of the brain that limits our ability to carry out more than one task at the same time — and have shown how, with training, the brain gets better at multitasking.
"Our brain is lousy at handling multitasking situations," says neuroscientist René Marois of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, who led the work together with Paul Dux, a cognitive scientist who is now at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
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