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Training Improves Multitasking Performance by Increasing the Speed of Information Processing in Human Prefrontal Cortex

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Dux, Paul E., Tombu, Michael N., Harrison, Stephenie, Rogers, Baxter P., Tong, Frank, Marois, René·2009·Neuron
DOI 10.1016/j.neuron.2009.06.005
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Summary Our ability to multitask is severely limited: Task performance deteriorates when we attempt to undertake two or more tasks simultaneously. Remarkably, extensive training can greatly reduce such multitasking costs. While it is not known how training alters the brain to solve the multitasking problem, it likely involves the prefrontal cortex given this brain region’s purported role in limiting multitasking performance. Here we show that the reduction of multitasking interference with training is not achieved by diverting the flow of information processing away from the prefrontal cortex, or by segregating prefrontal cells into independent task-specific neuronal ensembles, but rather by increasing the speed of information processing in this brain region, thereby allowing multiple tasks to be processed in rapid succession. These results not only reveal how training leads to efficient multitasking, they also provide a mechanistic account of multitasking limitations, namely the poor speed of information processing in human prefrontal cortex.

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Authors
Dux, P. E., Tombu, M. N., Harrison, S., Rogers, B. P., Tong, F., & Marois, R.
Venue
Neuron
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-07
Volume
63
Issue
1
Pages
127-138
ISSN
0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.neuron.2009.06.005
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W2031835386
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295
References
15
FWCI
7.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
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