The missing piece of the brain’s multitasking network – Medical Xpress

Multitasking performance stems from the speed of information exchange between inner and outer regions of the brain, according to new research in eNeuro.
Doing two things at once courts disaster, as multitasking requires outer cortical brain regions to rapidly communicate with each other. The speed of this information exchange limits multitasking capability yet can improve with practice. But that’s not the whole story: multitasking also depends on the striatum, a previously overlooked region dee…

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