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Peter Wilson, Professor of Developmental Psychology, Australian Catholic University

Think you're good at multi-tasking? Here's how your brain compensates – and how this changes with age

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We’re all time-poor, so multi-tasking is seen as a necessity of modern living. We answer work emails while watching TV, make shopping lists in meetings and listen to podcasts when doing the dishes. We attempt to split our attention countless times a day when juggling both mundane and important tasks.

But doing two things at the same time isn’t always as productive or safe as focusing on one thing at a time.

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