On 5/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damien Sullivan</b> <<a href="mailto:phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu">phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
How true is this "quite well" and "fully participating"?</blockquote><div><br>
It's true in the cases I'm referring to.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have a dim<br>memory of studies actually looking at this, and finding performance
<br>deficits, but I don't remember any specifics. Well, cell phones<br>hampering drivers.</blockquote><div><br>
Well yeah, having one hand completely occupied and unavailable for the
steering wheel or gear stick is going to be a problem with a real-time
physical task like driving. I don't think it's a good analogy here.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Some tasks do go well in parallel because they're<br>both automatic *and* using different parts of the brain; reading and
<br>listening don't seem so segregated.<br><br>I hang out a fair bit with undergrad gamers, many of whom seem to have<br>the attention span of a ferret. It annoys *them* sometimes, let alone<br>me, when they realize that their role playing game is inching forward
<br>because half the players get distracted every five minutes.<br>
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It probably depends on the person. I'm choosy about who I invite to my
games; whether most people of average intelligence could multitask that
well, I don't know.<br>
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