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source: http://www.medicaldaily.com/multitasking-brain-game-supertasker-386370

While many of us are quick to add the term “multi-tasker” to our resumes, in reality, true multitaskers, also known as supertaskers, only make up about 2 percent of the population. Recently, the team at BrainCraftinvestigated what exactly set this talented bunch apart from the rest of us and even recommended a test for you to find out if you’re actually a secret supertasker.

True multitasking is difficult and although we may attempt to walk and text or drive and talk on the phone, anecdotal evidence has shown that doing two or more tasks simultaneously usually results in us doing one task poorly. Research has suggested that this is because our brain’s prefrontal cortex, which is responsible for decision making and complex behaviors like planning, chooses which visual and auditory information to process at a single time, working much like a switchboard.

Supertaskers are different. Their brains are not only able to process multiple stimuli simultaneously, but they are able to do this with impressive efficiency. In fact, according to University of Utah researcher David Strayer, these individuals actually perform better when doing more than one task at a time, Popular Sciencereported.

While it’s unclear exactly what it is in the brains of supertaskers that allows them to succeed where most would slow down, there is a way to determine whether or not you are part of this small yet gifted portion of the population; The Dual N-Back game. This game involves remembering a sequence of letters and positions of squares at the same time. Click here and have a go at the test to uncover whether or not you have a secret talent.

Q1. Muti-task can be seen easily in our life, like playing ball games or video games, riding the scooter, or watching your smart phone and walking simultaneously. The difficulty of a muti-task depends on how difficult of each task is. Then my question is that what kind of multi-task can you process and do you pratice it before.

Q2.  The article says there are only 2% of the population can do muti-task very well. Have you ever met this kind of person? You can show your friends the Dual N-Back game refered in the article to check whether they are the "2%" or not.