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Brain divides when we multitask

Brain divides when we multitask

Posted on 17. Aug, 2010 by .

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Don’t bother trying to do more than two things at once – your brain just won’t be able to cope. Researchers at Ecole Normale Superieure in France monitored brain activity using imaging to see what happened when participants completed tasks. When carrying out one task, one side of the frontal lobe was shown to light [...]

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Friends help us predict the future

Friends help us predict the future

Posted on 23. Mar, 2009 by .

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Work by Dan Gilbert has shown that people are poor predictors of the future (see his book Stumbling on Happiness for more on this). However, recent research by Gilbert and colleagues suggests that talking to people you know who underwent a particular experience can help you better predict the future. Yet despite the fact other [...]

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