Formerly, we were trained to concentrate on one task, like a factory worker.
This may not mean always being narrowly focused on one task; plenty of social situations need "wide-angle" attention instead.
The remaining temporary health service managers will be focused on one task: stay within budget and only worry about short-term horizons.
So many of us find that while we're working on one task, a nagging voice pops up in our heads saying we should be doing something else.
During another week, students were told to concentrate on one task at a time and to resist looking at their hand-held computers.
Again and again, research shows that when people are distracted or when they start multitasking, they don't do as well as when they are able to concentrate fully on one task.
But on the Internet, users tend to focus on one task at a time and so are harder to distract -- particularly by small and lifeless advertising formats that are not nearly as compelling as a 30-second TV commercial.
Located on the frontal lobe, it is a toolbox of mental attention skills that enables the brain to concentrate on one task while blocking out competing information and to switch focus between different tasks without becoming confused.
But it mostly balances – I deal with emails at the beginning, middle and end of every day, I focus completely on one task for two hours, before moving onto the next.
A change is as good as a rest for a brain worn down by working too long on one task, according to a study released yesterday in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Women were faster on four tasks and men on one task.
