Music distracting you while parking? Here’s why!
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Technologies are progressing in leaps and bounds, newer gadgets are developing every day and human beings are being trained to get faster and efficient in every aspect of life. Yet, when it comes to the matter of multi-tasking, which most individuals would claim to be immensely proficient at, studies show we can only multi-task to an extent where one activity does not necessarily interfere with the performance of the other activities. You may well boast of listening to music and solving crosswords or even racking your brains to get that tricky mathematical problem solved simultaneously. You may listen to your mother giving you advice while cooking or doing other household chores at the same time. You will even swish past several cars on the highway with loud music being played at the backdrop without even bothering to turn the volume low. But when it comes to executing things like parking the car in a parking area amidst a plethora of honking cars, vendors yelling and people crossing roads in a busy street, well, you cannot but resist your hands from turning the knob of the radio.
For one, your brain can multi-task, but to a certain extent. It cannot process two same neural stimuli at the same time properly which explains the fact that you cannot listen to a song and concentrate on a speech simultaneously. Although parking and listening to songs are completely different in terms of the resources involved, yet the action of parking in a
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That is to say, as also proposed by Arthur B. Markman of University of Texas, Austin, any task which requires planning in higher levels of your brain needs utmost concentration. Thus, you prefer to turn off your radio or at least keep the volume low when you need to plan just how to park your car in a busy area or a cumbersome parking lot. As pointed out by Russell A. Poldrack, Professor of Psychology at University of Stanford, when you turn the volume of the music low while parking the car, you are actually subconsciously giving the prefrontal cortex of your brain, which happens to be the cognitive sphere, the space and chance to focus on parking and not banging the car by getting too stressed or distracted by the loud music inside the vehicle.
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