Practice helps the brain separate tasks and improve multitasking ability

Why is it so difficult to perform two tasks at the same time? For decades, scientists have debated whether multitasking is limited by a "central bottleneck" that restricts simultaneous processing or by competition for limited neural resources shared across tasks. But neither view fully explains how the brain manages these competing demands or how practice transforms an interference-prone system into more efficient multitasking.

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