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Can we really multitask?
Can humans really multitask?
Professor Nick Chater takes presenter Michael Blastland through a simple experiment designed to show a rather extraordinary side to a very ordinary task, "when we have do something remotely difficult, we immediately have to stop doing everything else."
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