The ability to multitask is a virtue in our plugged-in society. That’s not how our brains are built to function, though. This hour, we’ll talk about strategies for working on one task at a time – and about how we can block out the interference that keeps us from getting things done – with Adam Gazzaley, director of the Neuroscience Imaging Center at UC-San Francisco. He writes about the topic in “The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High-Tech World” (MIT Press).
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