Why we don't recommend multitasking (with Professor of Neuroscience, Dr. Charan Ranganath)

"Multitasking isn't really giving you any benefits And I know many many of your listeners probably hear messages from people in the tech world for instance saying multitasking is great I'm so efficient And it's like the answer is no you're not It's really doing two things badly at the same time I'm sure if you have a personal assistant you can make up for that but many of us don't have that luxury"

Charan Ranganath is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and director of the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California at Davis. For over 25 years, Dr. Ranganath has studied the mechanisms in the brain that allow us to remember past events, using brain imaging techniques, computational modeling and studies of patients with memory disorders. He has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. He lives in Davis, California.

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