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  2. Human multitasking - Wikipedia

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    Human multitasking is the concept that one can split their attention on more than one task or activity at the same time, such as speaking on the phone while driving a car. Multitasking can result in time wasted due to human context switching (e.g., determining which step is next in the task just switched to) and becoming prone to errors due to ...

  3. Plant intelligence - Wikipedia

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    The notion that plants are capable of feeling emotions was first recorded in 1848, when Gustav Fechner, an experimental psychologist, suggested that plants are capable of emotions and that one could promote healthy growth with talk, attention, attitude, and affection. [16] Federico Delpino wrote about plant intelligence in 1867. [17]

  4. Human uses of living things - Wikipedia

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    Plants provide the greater part of the food for people and their domestic animals: much of civilisation came into being through agriculture. While many plants have been used for food, a small number of staple crops including wheat , rice , and maize provide most of the food in the world today.

  5. Multitasking is dead. Monotasking is better for our health ...

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    The trouble with multitasking Simply put, multitasking is when we attempt to do more than one thing at a time. The problem is that our brains aren’t wired to tackle tasks this way.

  6. Broadbent's filter model of attention - Wikipedia

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    Attention is part of nearly every waking moment for humans, as it is the focusing of one's thoughts. Selective attention [14] utilizes cognitive processes to focus on relevant targets on input, thoughts or actions while neglecting irrelevant sources of input. This is the basis for how we attend to specific stimuli.

  7. 7 things science says women do better than men - AOL

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    Both women and men are capable of performing extraordinary feats, but there are some things the females of our species do better. Here are 7 of them, according to science. Number 7. Seeing colors ...

  8. Superorganism - Wikipedia

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    The 19th-century thinker Herbert Spencer coined the term super-organic to focus on social organization (the first chapter of his Principles of Sociology is entitled "Super-organic Evolution" [14]), though this was apparently a distinction between the organic and the social, not an identity: Spencer explored the holistic nature of society as a social organism while distinguishing the ways in ...

  9. Human biology - Wikipedia

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    Human biology is an interdisciplinary area of academic study that examines humans through the influences and interplay of many diverse fields such as genetics, evolution, physiology, anatomy, epidemiology, anthropology, ecology, nutrition, population genetics, and sociocultural influences.