F9thRet
04-05-2010, 07:41 AM
At least it was kind of interesting to me. The first thing I thought of , was all of us multiboxers, when I got to this point...
But a minority of students in Watson and Strayer's study — the other 2.5% — showed no declines in performance, and in some cases even logged an overall improvement in ability when various tasks were combined. This is the small subset of individuals whom the authors call supertaskers, whose brains seem to function differently from those of the rest of us.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1977523,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
I figured some of the Old timers here might get a kick out of reading it also.
Stephen
But a minority of students in Watson and Strayer's study — the other 2.5% — showed no declines in performance, and in some cases even logged an overall improvement in ability when various tasks were combined. This is the small subset of individuals whom the authors call supertaskers, whose brains seem to function differently from those of the rest of us.
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1977523,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
I figured some of the Old timers here might get a kick out of reading it also.
Stephen