Multitasking Is No Problem, But Double Talk Overwhelms Us

First off, I want to get this off my chest. Despite snide and sexist jokes, men CAN do multitasking. It's just that it's not always of the kind or the timing that women would like it to be. Men could and have in the past made jokes about women's propensity to be scatty. That's not necessarily true either but it would be the obverse, What's really going on is a piece of cultural jujitsu by certain Gender warriors, but it's no less sexis; if it's wrong for men to stereotype women and make put-down jokes about those fictional stereotypes ... well, you get the picture.
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Now I've written that, on to the article that got my attention both as a trainee teacher and a worship leader;

people are pretty good at perceptual multitasking -- except when multiple sources of incoming stimuli are of the same type. Humans learn "sequential structure from multiple sources at the same time, as long as the sensory characteristics of the sources do not overlap,"

Notethe lack of differentaition by gender. Why I'm interested though is it shows that a multisensory environment is potentially helpful as a learning environment because it gives more channels for learning and we can normally cope with them. So rpoviding simultaneous inputs for kinaesthetic, auditory and visual learners is probably not only possible, but may be helpful. In a way, we knew this already, but it's nice to have some research backup.

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