Your Brain Can Rewire Itself To Allow True Multitasking (sciencealert.com)
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- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/07/29/0455211/your-brain-can-rewire-itself-to-allow-true-multitasking
- Source link: https://www.sciencealert.com/your-brain-really-can-learn-to-multitask-and-scientists-just-revealed-how
> [I]n a new study [2]published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience , researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center in the U.S. have revealed that we can put certain tasks on autopilot in a way that [3]enables something closer to true multitasking . Driving is the perfect example: When you take your test, your entire mental and physical energy is concentrated on executing the right combinations of movements and thoughts. After a decade behind the wheel, the brain is no longer consciously thinking everything through in great detail.
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> In the new study, the researchers found that after extensive practice, the brain can effectively reroute some tasks around the brain's main computing center -- like a bypass road around a city -- to reduce mental overload and improve multitasking capability. "We have another stepping stone in our understanding of how the brain learns," says neuroscientist Maximilian Riesenhuber, senior author of the study. "The encouraging part is that you really can learn to multitask. There is actually a way to remodel your brain architecture and use other parts of your brain."
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> [...] "Previous studies have shown that parts of the temporal cortex can be activated by particular object categories in experienced observers -- birds, cars, even Pokemon -- but a limitation of all of those studies is that they only looked after people became experts," says psychologist Patrick Cox, first author of the study. "We measure before and after training, so we can see that extensive training essentially put a category-selective area in the temporal lobe that was not there before." The study culminated in a dual-task experiment, in which the participants were asked to identify cars and take on another challenge. The individuals whose brains had offloaded more car-sorting work to the temporal cortex did better at the second task.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~alternative_right
[2] https://doi.org/10.1162/JOCN.a.2618
[3] https://www.sciencealert.com/your-brain-really-can-learn-to-multitask-and-scientists-just-revealed-how
Captain Obvious strikes again (Score:3)
When you do a sport, like tennis, boxing, or whtever else -- what you've done in your training is teaching your stem brain to react and coordinate doszens of simultaneous tasks.
The thing is: it's only the neocortex that can't truly multitask.
Driving is a good example: you can do most of the tasks out of a well trained stem brain. The challenge is to not offload essential, complex decision-making tasks, requiring differentiate processing, and which therefore absolutely have to be on the neocortex -- or else people die.
This is why I don't like many driver assistance features: they draw away neocortex capacitiy, in other words: they're needlessly distracting.
Some are useful though.
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I'm pretty sure the actual study deals with much more than the summary here and your pathetic attempt to look insightful, you fucking turd. Only a retarded asshole thinks that science reporting is the same thing as the contents of a peer-reviewed study.
Go suck that moron dick someplace else, shit for brains.
It does it poorly (Score:2)
"After a decade behind the wheel, the brain is no longer consciously thinking everything through in great detail. "
Indeed, and for some reason, signalling fell through the brain's cracks.
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Also, he'll get stopped and fined by the cops for using his newfound multitasking ability to caress his iphone while driving.