From checking emails while on a call to cooking dinner and helping with homework, we all operate through multitasking. But new research suggests that our ability to juggle multiple tasks isn’t a single, universal skill. Instead, it is a combination of general abilities (applied across different situations) with more specific abilities (unique to particular multitasking situations). This helps explain why past studies have reported conflicting gender differences in multitasking—often depending on the specific type of task used.
This article was originally published on MedicalXpress.com
