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Divided attention could be defined as our brain’s ability to attend to two different stimuli at the same time, and respond to the multiple demands of your surroundings. Divided attention is a type of simultaneous attention that allows us to process different information sources and successfully carry out multiple tasks at a time.This cognitive skill is very important, as it allows us to be more efficient in our day-to-day lives. Our ability to attend to multiple stimuli and do various tasks at a time does have its limits.

When you divide your attention, the efficiency with which you do these actions is decreased, and you will almost certainly perform poorly. Interference is the term used to describe when a person has a hard time attending to two stimuli at a time. We see interference when the brain is only able to process a certain amount of information.

However, cognitive training can help improve divided attention, and as a consequence, the ability to do more than one activity at a time.The apparatus consists of a wooden board with a circular and triangular groove with a metallic contact point on each. The board is wired so that any passage of electric current on it from a battery can be indicated by an impulse counter. The board is connected to a battery terminal.

The other terminal of the battery is connected to a metallic stylus through the impulse counter. Whenever the stylus touches the metallic contact point, the impulse counter records it as an error.