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Nick Chater, "The Mind Is Flat: The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain" (Yale UP, 2019)

New Books in Psychology

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Exploring the Limits of Multitasking and Attention

This chapter explores the limitations of multitasking and the cognitive mechanisms that affect our attention. Through a driving experiment, it highlights how competing tasks can interfere with performance, revealing the psychological bottlenecks involved in our perceived multitasking abilities.

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