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Jun. 11, 2010
Multitasking
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| 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. |
Produced by Christopher Intagliata, Associate Senior Producer
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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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