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Charles Ives

Can we really not multi-task?

27 May 2014 by Robert Falkowitz Leave a Comment

Location of the dorsal striatum, where memory may be sent during multitasking

Can the human brain multi-task? The loss of efficiency and effectiveness due to context switching among various tasks is one of the underpinning tenets of why a Kanban approach helps organizations to reduce the lead times of their work. But is it really true that the human brain cannot multi-task?

Filed Under: Kanban Tagged With: Charles Ives, context switching, Igor Stravinsky, kanban, multi-tasking, WIP, work in progress

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