Planning a Speech Can Be Multitasking

No matter how little you plan in advance, you still need something like half a second or something like that. The time on average that passes between two people kind of taking the floor to speak is not half a second but a quarter of a second. So essentially even when you're doing nothing else but having a conversation, which is speaking, you're actually multitasking. And so given we know this, researchers use this trick to study advanced planning. Back to Mail Online home. Back to the page you came from.