Why people can't do more than 3 things at a time

[Katze]

Interesting article ....

Why you can’t do 3 things at once
Study shows multitasking lets you use only half your brain

(By Rachael Rettner
LiveScience Staff Writer)
updated 7:52 p.m. CT, Thurs., April 15, 2010

"For those who find it tough to juggle more than a couple things at once, don't despair. The brain is set up to manage two tasks, but not more, a new study suggests.

That's because, when faced with two tasks, a part of the brain known as the medial prefrontal cortex divides so that half of the region focuses on one task and the other half on the other task. This division of labor allows a person to keep track of two tasks pretty readily, but if you throw in a third, things get a bit muddled. "

............... the rest of the article can be found here  :
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36582695/ns/health-behavior/?ns=health-behavior

[Comet]

I heard that the other day on Good Morning America i found that kinda interesting!!

Thanks for Sharing that Into Blue 

[Katze]

You are welcome Comet.

I was thinking about this and you know how sometimes one can trick the mind into thinking something, other than what is .... what if, one takes the two tasks and breaks them into smaller tasks, and adds 2 more smaller tasks ?

so one would actually be performing 4 tasks instead of 2, but the brain would be thinking it is only performing 4 ~ 1/2 tasks which in reality = two tasks