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Schwartz talks about the myth of multitasking: "The brain can't do cognitive tasks at the same time, so you end up dividing attention between them, as your brain switches back and forth.
The additional cortical activation in these areas is apparently due to the process of dividing attention between the execution of SPEM and the covert tracking of the auditory target.
The bilateral advantage observed in Experiment 1 for numerosities greater than four seems to reflect an advantage of dividing attention between the left and right hemifields as compared to within the same hemifield, as greater numerosities may require greater attention.
The additional cortical activation in these areas is assumed to be due to the process of dividing attention between the execution of SPEM and the covert tracking of the auditory target.
Our results imply that children with elevated levels of anxiety will be less capable of dividing attention between the regulation of balance and cognitive secondary tasks.
The brief durations used in the present study suggest therefore that it would be impossible to achieve a high rate of target-pair detections using a switching strategy and that accurate performance could only be achieved by dividing attention between the two locations.
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A sampler of Brazilian culture, the show divides attention between the Baroque and the modern.
Operators in high-stress domains often need to divide attention between the central and peripheral visual fields.
This combined PET and ERP study was designed to identify the brain regions activated in switching and divided attention between different features of a single object using matched sensory stimuli and motor response.
The ability to divide attention between multiple moving objects has been extensively studied using the MOT task (Pylyshyn & Storm, 1988), where observers are asked to track a set of identical targets moving among identical distractors.
Why is it hard to divide attention between dissimilar activities, such as reading and listening to a conversation?
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