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Putamen: Missing Piece of the Brain’s Multitasking Network.

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Deep Inside the Brain: Neuroscientists Discover the Missing Piece of the Brain’s Multitasking Network: putamen.

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Deep inside the brain the putamen, not just the cortex, contributes to multitasking ability.

Multitasking performance stems from the speed of information exchange between inner and outer regions of the brain, according to new research in eNeuro.

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The study:

Cognitive capacity limits are remediated by practice-induced plasticity between the Putamen and Pre-Supplementary Motor Area.

eneuro.org/content/early/20...

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George has the most intense focus ever! He cannot do two things at the same time. If, for example, he goes to the shop, he comes out with one item, rather than thinking about what we might need soon.

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Let him make a list of what you need. If it's only a couple or three things we need, my husband doesn't need a list.

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We do lists too. I just think it's funny. A whole different way of processing.

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True....I think I have a one dimensional mind now. 😐

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