Friday, June 11th, 2010

Multitasking

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Photo by Flickr user doortoriver.

You might listen to this segment while you work on the computer, make dinner, or drive somewhere. You might text while you wait for a web page to load, or check your email at the baseball game -- or during an important meeting. But what's going on in the brain with all this multitasking? We'll talk about our increasingly info-centric world, and whether the human brain can cope.

Guests

Adam Gazzaley
Associate Professor, Neurology, Physiology and Psychiatry
Director, Neuroscience Imaging Center
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Clifford Nass
Author, forthcoming "The Man Who Lied to His Laptop" (Penguin Current, 2010)
Professor, Communication
Stanford University
Stanford, California

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Segment produced by:Christopher Intagliata

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