The study found practice frees the brain's decision-making centre. Brain rewires for true multitasking, new study finds.

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Melinda French Gates believes in taking on tasks one at a time. During a Monday appearance for her new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Task switching may be cutting your productivity by 40%. Here’s what the multitasking research says and the fix that actually works ...

The article argues that "multitasking" in complex environments like an airplane cockpit is a myth; pilots actually "serial-task," rapidly switching focus between individual tasks. Attempting to cram ...

When you think you’re multitasking—responding to emails while listening to a conference call while monitoring chat messages—your brain is actually rapidly switching between tasks rather than ...

Have you ever gotten good at the wrong thing? I think it might have happened to me. Yesterday, I read this article about the myth of multitasking -- how what we once thought of as skillful juggling is ...

There is a sense of pride often felt when multitasking, as if we have defied human nature by completing more than one high-level brain task at a time, rendering us both superhuman and incredibly ...

Task switching may be cutting your productivity by 40%. Here’s what the multitasking research says and the fix that actually works. AFP via Getty Images Only 2.5% of people can genuinely handle two ...

Sometimes my head hurts. Usually it's precipitated by a period of time when I'm in a state of multi-tasking chaos. I come to that state quite naturally. Those of you who know me know that I'm the ...