Why the Human Brain Can't Multitask

d789b Says:

Nov 7, 2011 - This guy is right, if you don't have faith in your works.

soURfunnyYOUthink Says:

Nov 14, 2011 - my brain sucks!

OXXpb Says:

Nov 28, 2011 - Can anybody tell me what company might have sponsored this? I can't tell from the video...... /sarcasm

teknown Says:

Dec 2, 2011 - This has something to with age? I mean, children can multitask? I think that multitasking is influenced by people around you. If you don't have something precise to think about you will do multitasking. When you are younger you get other kind of results. What I want to say is that if you manage to not focus on something that has a clear result thinking you got the answer you will do multitasking. Paying attention and not trying to get an answer or result to a thing out of many is multitasking.

teknown Says:

Dec 2, 2011 - Brain is smart, it tries to fool you. Try use it without using works, using a complicated language while you think about something also breaks your capacity of multitasking. Try think simple, use keywords and not think the answer in words. Yeah, working memory is small, but if you manage to use it in this way you will get good benefits from it. I don't say you need to control your brain, I say that you need to fool it. Long duration memory is huge, why not stock here all the complex?

teknown Says:

Dec 2, 2011 - Humans cannot do many things, but they can cheat!

infinitelimitation Says:

Dec 7, 2011 - so computers in reality are smarter than our brains even though we created computers lol 

Oslokiddo Says:

Dec 14, 2011 - a computer dosent know shitt. all it can do is solve a task that we give it.. and to do that its takes in the information from the harddrive. to the ram. and then the CPU is reading that information and trying to solve it.

infinitelimitation Says:

Dec 14, 2011 - its an algorithmic process lol ( im reading computer science at college)but yeah you are right computers are only there to process the user input

dk4everX Says:

Dec 17, 2011 - this is bullshit...

dk4everX Says:

Dec 17, 2011 - then i am not a human .. cuz i can multitask .. you mad now, bro ..

TehHeavy Says:

Jan 4, 2012 - draw a perfect cube and a perfect circle[1 with each hand] at the same time and see if u can multitaskin less then 2 sec

hosseinasghari Says:

Jan 28, 2012 - stupid, you are walking and talking, this is multitasking.

leerees Says:

Feb 1, 2012 - Since I started working for many hours on strategies my long term memory has got really bad, sometimes I'll be in the middle of a strategy and just completely forget what I'm doing. I believe I've burnt my hippocampus out because I keep getting dejavu feelings aswell, dejavu is so annoying as you completely loose your train of thought, I wouldn't mind if it actually meant something but it's a trick, you think you saw something before, you did 10ms ago when your hippocampus crapped out!

leerees Says:

Feb 1, 2012 - Depends what system in the brain it relates too. Justin Beiber is a peice of information just as the letter B is or an image of a car. All 3 instances would be created by different networks within your brain. The trick with the limit is to cluster together groups of information inside one peice. Lets say you store the number 42 inside an image of a hammer and the number 20 inside a car, in future you only have to remember hammer car to get 4220, it works really well.

leerees Says:

Feb 1, 2012 - lol brains do not have algorithms or algorithmic processes.

gogoasacenusie Says:

Feb 8, 2012 - , i'm a Reptilian alien and i can multitask ya'll human bastards

Samtesdua Says:

Mar 12, 2012 - For example at the same time you drive your car and listen to radio

urbossadam Says:

Mar 15, 2012 - shit! how the fuck did i get to masturbate again listening to you!

zEropoint68 Says:

Apr 17, 2012 - Except that human brains can and do multitask in exactly the biological manner this man suggests.It's called synesthesia. It doesn't exactly mean what everyone *wants* it to mean (i.e. you can text while you drive), but it *is* the human brain multitasking, and you're doing it right now. Listen to your mind's ear as you read the end of this sentence?See how you heard it go up?You *heard* nothing. But you did. Synesthesia. Your brain *does* multitask. Just not the way you want it to.

kmdunklin10 Says:

May 2, 2012 - maybe all scientist need to understand that you cannot gain full understanding of the brain, simply because you are using one to do so.

85Damix Says:

May 3, 2012 - I can do multi task. I can run about 8 nodes... things aren't impossible just because You cannot do them.

gsherlock Says:

May 15, 2012 - Its not necessarily a question of not being able to perform multiple tasks, its a question of how well you perform those tasks. I wouldn't want a brain surgeon to operate on me whilst watching a film, would you?