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Authors and Researchers who conduct multitasking studies:

"If you're driving while cell-phoning, then your performance is going to be as poor as if you were legally drunk," says **David Meyer**, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95702512)

"If you test people while they're texting or talking on the phone, they will actually miss a lot of things that are in their visual periphery," says **Earl Miller**, a neuroscientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95702512)


 * Marcel Just**, a neuroscientist at Carnegie Mellon University, says that's why people learning to drive don't do anything else. "Novice drivers turn off the radio, they ask you not to talk to them. They need all the brain participation they can get for the driving," Just says. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95702512)

At a lab at the University of Michigan, researchers are using an MRI scanner to photograph test subjects' brains as they take on different tasks. During a recent test, **Daniel Weissman**, the neuroscientist in charge of the experiment, explained that a man lying inside the scanner would be performing different tasks, depending on the color of two numbers he sees on a screen. (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95256794)