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You might know some people who have the ability to listen to music and read a book and eat dinner all at the same time.
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This is called parallel processing.
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Parallel processing is the ability to do many tasks at once, or you might know it as multitasking.
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However, no matter how good you are at multitasking, sometimes your brain cannot see objects when attention is directed elsewhere, even though those objects are visible to your eye.
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So an example of this might be a bus driver.
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This bus driver has taken her kids to school on the same route for many years.
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However, on one particular day, there is a lot of traffic outside.
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Due to the abnormal amount of traffic, she might have to pay more attention to the road than she usually does...