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Supertaskers (Some People Really Can Multitask)

IDEAS Posted: May 8, 2014 12:28 pm

For years, researchers have reported that humans cannot truly multitask and that performance suffers when they try. Yet there seems to be “a tiny but persistent subset of the population – about two per cent – whose performance does not deteriorate, and can even improve, when multiple demands are placed on their attention.”

IDEAS Published: 05.07.14

Read the story in The New Yorker Published: 05.07.14

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