How practice rewires the brain to truly multitask

Practice can make the brain actually multitask. Scientists at Georgetown University had volunteers sort images on a phone app over thirty thousand times. At first the sorting used the prefrontal cortex, the brain's conscious decision center. After weeks the task moved to the temporal cortex, a memory and recognition area. This shift freed the prefrontal cortex for other work. People who offloaded most effectively handled two tasks at once best. Practice rewires the brain to bypass a bottleneck, boosting real multitasking capacity.

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