Practice may do more than make perfect. Researchers found that extensive training physically reorganizes the brain, allowing learned tasks to bypass the prefrontal cortex and run through specialized circuits instead. By freeing the brain's "thinking" center, people became better at performing another task at the same time, challenging the long-held idea that humans only switch rapidly between tasks rather than truly multitask.
← Back to news
science
Scientists discover how the brain rewires itself to truly multitask
Log in to like articles and leave feedback.
Log in with Telegram →