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The Case of The Missing Gorilla

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Are You Better at Multitasking Than Women?

Dr. Tom Manley is program leader at the University of Cambridge's MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. He says we're not really multi-tasking, that we are focused on one thing and then move our focus to something else. And what about the oft-repeated idea that women are better at multitasking? Well, not that we've been able to find. But as I said, it's often about what you're used to, what you've learned to do.

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