The Brain and the Kalimba – 2
Can you really pay attention to two things at once? You can, but it’s a skill you have to cultivate When I was 24, I finally learned how to talk and play guitar at the same time. Until then, when playing guitar, I could hear what was being said, and could understand it, but I could not speak or even answer simple questions. Why could I not speak and play guitar at the same time? I suppose the “music generation” part of my brain overlapped too much with the “speech generation” part of my brain. And how, exactly, did I learn to speak and play at the same time? And